ISBN: 9780746311226

Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she rema… Mehr…

Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she remains a unique and idiosyncratic figure, unassimilated by models of American expatriate or Sapphic modernism. In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Barnes''s oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the Ladies Almanack, and her late play The Antiphon, as well as her modernist classic Nightwood. She explores thepsychological and stylistic aspect of Barnes''s work through close analysis of the texts within their social, cultural and aesthetic context, and provides an indispensable and enriching guide to Barnes''s artistic identity and poetic vision. Barnes''s determined inversion of generic, social, sexology, degeneration, ethnography and decadence, her unusual childhood, her professional friendships with T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. | Djuna Barnes by Deborah Parsons Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Deborah Parsons<

ISBN: 9780746311226

Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she rema… Mehr…

Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she remains a unique and idiosyncratic figure, unassimilated by models of American expatriate or Sapphic modernism.In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Barnes''s oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the Ladies Almanack, and her late play The Antiphon, as well as her modernist classic Nightwood. She explores thepsychological and stylistic aspect of Barnes''s work through close analysis of the texts within their social, cultural and aesthetic context, and provides an indispensable and enriching guide to Barnes''s artistic identity and poetic vision. Barnes''s determined inversion of generic, social, sexology,degeneration, ethnography and decadence, her unusual childhood, her professional friendships with T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory List_Books, [PU: Northcote House]<

ISBN: 9780746311226

Hardback. New. In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Djuna Barnes's oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the … Mehr…

Hardback. New. In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Djuna Barnes's oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the Ladies Almanack, and her late play The Antiphon, as well as her modernist classic Nightwood., 6<