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Aphrodite Urania
Author_Diane Warren
Barnes Criticism
Brave Heart
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cultural boundaries
Da Game
Daughter Relation
Dead Man
Dear Estrangement
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Fairy Tale
feminist literary criticism
Frees Women
gender theory
Greenwich Village
identity formation
Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
La Somnambule
ladies
Ladies Almanack
literary modernism
Male Homosexual Love
modernist gender aesthetics analysis
Molly Dance
narrative
Petit Souper
polyphony
Reporter Comments
Sea Water
Sexological Discourse
Sophia's Dream
Sophia’s Dream
Text's Polyphony
texts
Text’s Polyphony
Titus Andronicus
twentieth-century literature
Work's Family Context
Work’s Family Context
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138619463
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a pioneering female journalist, experimental novelist, playwright, and poet whose influence on literary modernism was profound and whose writings anticipated many of the preoccupations of poststructuralist and feminist thought. In her new book,the author argues that Barnes' writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to present-day debates on identity. In particular, Warren traces the works' close engagement with the effects of cultural boundaries on the individual, showing how the journalism, Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and the early chapters of Nightwood energetically and playfully subvert such boundaries. In this reading, Nightwood is contextualised as a pivotal text which poses questions about the limits of subversion, thereby positioning The Antiphon (1958) as an analysis of why such boundaries are sometimes necessary. Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions shows that from the irreverent and carnivalesque iconoclasm of Barnes' early works, to the bleak assessment that conflict lies at the root of culture, seen from the close of Nightwood, Barnes' oeuvre offers a profound analysis of the relationship between culture, the individual and textual expression.
Diane Warren
