Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers - Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) - that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Through these analyses, th…
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major works of the period's mo…
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major works of the period's mo…
An exploration of the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively readings of the major works of the period's most 'fa…
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality affect and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major works of the period's mos…
An exploration of the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively readings of the major works of the period's most 'fa…
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. Julie Taylor uses the writings of the American novelist, poet, dramatist, artist and journalist Djuna Barnes to form the basis of a series of disruptive questions about modernist aesthe…
"In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barn…
By examining Djuna Barnes' work, this title raises questions about biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. It shows how throughout Barnes' corpus the repetition of texts forces us to rethink the relationship between authority and …
In her re-examination of Djuna Barnes' work, the author raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes' manuscripts, primary and critical texts, Caselli tackles one o…