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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 most 'famous unknown'.
Modernism (Literature) --- Barnes, Djuna --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Modernism (Literature). --- American --- General. --- Barnes, Djuna, --- Barnes, Djuna.
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This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American modernism: its pastoral ideographies, (post)colonial ecologies, as well as regional and transcultural varieties. Mapping the pastoral moment in different temporalities and spaces (Barnes representing the 1920s expatriation in Europe while Bowles comments on the 1940s exodus to Mexico and North Africa), this book suggests that Barnes and Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.
Nomads in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- Barnes, Djuna --- Bowles, Jane, --- Auer, Jane Sydney, --- Bowles, Jane Auer, --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nomads in literature --- Exiles in literature --- Modernism (Literature)
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"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author. A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody."-Library JournalBlending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanac is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also the first audience. Barney herself subsidized its private publication in 1928. Fifty of the 1050 copies of the first edition were hand colored by the author, who was identified only as a lady of Fashion: on the title page.
Lesbians --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies. --- Barnes, Djuna --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Gays --- Women --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה
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In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford's Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as "the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside." Hannah Roche takes Stein's definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. The Outside Thing offers original readings of both canonical and peripheral texts, including Stein's first novel Q.E.D. (Things As They Are), Hall's Adam's Breed and The Well of Loneliness, and Barnes's early writing alongside Nightwood.Is there an inside space for lesbian writing, or must it always seek refuge elsewhere? Crossing established lines of demarcation between the in and the out, the real and the romantic, and the Victorian and the modernist, The Outside Thing presents romance as a heterosexual plot upon which lesbian writers willfully set up camp. These writers boldly adopted and adapted the romance genre, Roche argues, as a means of staking a queer claim on a heteronormative institution. Refusing to submit or surrender to the "straight" traditions of the romance plot, they turned the rules to their advantage. Drawing upon extensive archival research, The Outside Thing is a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism.
Lesbians' writings, American --- Lesbians' writings, English --- English lesbians' writings --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Stein, Gertrude, --- Hall, Radclyffe --- Barnes, Djuna --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Hall, John, --- Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe --- Radclyffe-Hall, Marguerite --- Staĭn, Gertruda, --- Stein, Gertruda,
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English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- American fiction --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Winterson, Jeanette, --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Hauser, Marianne --- Barnes, Djuna --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- ווינטרסון, ג׳נט, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Woolf, Virginia
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Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, new technological media and the social forces of mass politics opened fault lines in individual and collective experience, undermining the cultural bases of the modernist movement. He shows how late modernists attempted to discover ways of occupying this new and often dangerous cultural space. In doing so they laid bare the ruin of the modernist aesthetic at the same time as they transcended its limits.In his wide-ranging theoretical and historical discussion, Miller relates developments in literary culture to tendencies in the visual arts, cultural and political criticism, mass culture, and social history. He excavates Wyndham Lewis's hidden borrowings from Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer; situates Djuna Barnes between the imagery of haute couture and the intellectualism of Duchamp; uncovers Beckett's affinities with Giacometti's surrealist sculptures and the Bolshevik clowns Bim-Bom; and considers Mina Loy as both visionary writer and designer of decorative lampshades. Miller's lively and engaging readings of culture in this turbulent period reveal its surprising anticipation of our own postmodernity.
Fiction --- Thematology --- Barnes, Djuna --- Lewis, Wyndham --- Beckett, Samuel --- English fiction --- Modernism (Literature) --- American fiction --- Politics and literature --- Political fiction --- Roman anglais --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Roman américain --- Politique et littérature --- Polique-fiction --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Lewis, Wyndham, --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Barnes, Djuna. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- Loy, Mina --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Fictional works. --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- American literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- English literature --- Political aspects --- Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Sa-miao-erh, --- Beḳeṭ, Samuel, --- Beckett, Sam, --- Беккет, Сэмюэль, --- בעקעט, סאמועל --- בקט, סמואל --- בקט, סמואל, --- بكت، ساموئل --- Lewis, Percy Wyndham, --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Bikit, Sāmūʼil, --- Loy, Mina.
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Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers-Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J. R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in their lives as well as in their works. Not only did they live outside the norms of the heterosexual family unit, they also pursued and wrote about alternative lifestyles that prominently involved animals. Through close readings from a feminist perspective, Juliana Schiesari reconfigures the ways in which interspecies relationships inflect domestic spheres, reading the "Other" through the lens of gender, home, and family. As she explores how domestic life is refigured by the presence of animals, Schiesari challenges anthropocentric frames of reference and brings the very definition of "human" into question.
Social values in literature. --- Social structure in literature. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Pets in literature. --- Animals in literature. --- Ackerley, J. R. --- Colette, --- Barnes, Djuna --- Wharton, Edith, --- Jones, Edith Newbold --- Olivieri, David, --- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, --- Уортон, Эдит, --- Gouorton, Intith, --- Colette --- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle --- Willy, Colette --- Jouvenel, Gabrielle Claudine Colette de --- Gauthier-Villars, Henry --- Goudeket, Maurice --- Koleta --- Colettová --- Jouvenel, Henri de --- קולט, --- コレット, --- Willy, --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Ackerley, Joe Randolph, --- Ackerley, Joe, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Willy --- american and european culture. --- american literature criticism. --- book club books. --- books about home life. --- books about human behavior. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- feminist perspective. --- forms of domesticity. --- gender home and family. --- gender roles in american history. --- gifts for friends. --- gifts for moms. --- great for reluctant readers. --- human interaction. --- intense emotion. --- leisure reads. --- page turner. --- realistic. --- social stereotypes. --- vacation reads. --- what is human behavior.
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"Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the material world as both living and lived, and how the spaces they create for challenging gendered social norms can also be non-anthropocentric spaces for encounters between the human and the nonhuman. Using the unique knowledge created by literary works to spark new conversations between phenomenology, cognitive studies and new materialisms, complemented with a feminist perspective, this book explores how literature can touch the basic experience of being in, feeling and making sense of a material world that is itself alive and active. From a sensitive reading of how three women used the material world to make their readers see, feel, and question the norms shaping our experience, this volume draws a theory of reading affective materiality that illuminates modernism and the short story form but also reaches beyond them"--
Short stories, English --- English literature --- Materialism in literature --- Affect (Psychology) in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- Barnes, Djuna, --- Rhys, Jean, --- Mansfield, Katherine, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Short stories, English - History and criticism --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Barnes, Djuna, - 1892-1982 - Criticism and interpretation --- Rhys, Jean, - 1890-1979 - Criticism and interpretation --- Mansfield, Katherine, - 1888-1923 - Criticism and interpretation --- Barnes, Djuna --- Rhys, Jean --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Mansfield, Katherine --- Beauchamp, Kathleen M. --- Murry, Kathleen Beauchamp, --- Murry, John Middleton, --- Berry, Matilda, --- Mansfield Beauchamp, Kathleen, --- Man-ssu-fei-erh-te, Kʻai-se-lin, --- Mensfilld, Ketrin, --- Bowden, Kathleen, --- מאנספילד, קאתרין, --- מנספילד, קתרין, --- 曼斯菲尔德凯瑟琳, --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Barnes, Djuna, - 1892-1982 --- Rhys, Jean, - 1890-1979 --- Mansfield, Katherine, - 1888-1923
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Provides the first book-length analysis of modernism and the AnthropoceneProvides new and comparative readings of James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf, demonstrating how ecocriticism and posthumanism can open up new ways of understanding modernismIncludes new discoveries from Djuna Barnes’s archive that expand how we perceive her writingContributes to the turn in modernist studies towards the synthesis of historicism and theory, examining modernist fiction in the context of early-twentieth century scientific, environmental, and socio-political developments, while also bringing modernism into dialogue with contemporary theoryThe Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book resituates key works of modernist fiction within the ecological moment of the early twentieth century, a period in which new configurations of the relationship between human life and the natural world were migrating between the sciences, philosophy and literary culture. The author makes the case that the early twentieth century is pivotal in our understanding of the Anthropocene both as a planetary epoch and a critical concept. In doing so, he positions James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf as theorists of the modernist Anthropocene, showing how their oeuvres are shaped by, and actively respond to, changing ideas about the nonhuman that continue to reverberate today.
Modernism (Literature) --- Climatic changes in literature --- Nature in literature --- History --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Joyce, James, --- Barnes, Djuna --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius --- Joyce, James --- Dzhoĭs, Dzheĭms Avgustin Aloiziĭ --- Džoiss, Džeimss --- Gʻois, Gʻaims --- Joyce, Giacomo --- Jūyis, Jīms --- Tzoys, Tzaiēms --- Tzoys, Tzeēms --- Джойс, Джеймс --- Джойс, Джеймс Августин Алоїсуїс --- Zhoĭs, Zheĭms --- ג׳ויס, ג׳ײמס, --- ג׳ויס, ג׳יימס, --- ジョイス --- ジェームスジョイス, --- Woolf, Virginia --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Nature in poetry --- Climatic changes in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Climat --- Nature dans la littérature. --- Modernism (Literature). --- History. --- Changements, dans la littérature. --- Thematology --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Literary Criticism --- American
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