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Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism / Julie Taylor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 6 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748646753
  • 9780748646760
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  • 813.52
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds – Traumatic Modernism? -- Chapter 1 ‘The Excellent Arrangement of Catastrophe’: Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon -- Chapter 2 Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism and Ryder -- Chapter 3 ‘The Infected Carrier of the Past’: Nightwood, Shame and Modernism -- Chapter 4 ‘That Magic Reiteration’: Ladies Almanack and Happiness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpusJulie 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 aesthetics and the politics of reading. How do we reconcile Djuna Barnes's biographical writing with her Modernist commitment to impersonality?How do we honour the complexities of traumatic experience without pathologising the subject? How might we differently imagine the relationship between Modernism and literary history? Should we take on faith the Modernist repudiation of emotion? Why do we find it so difficult to talk about the pleasures of reading?The five chapters 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'. Key featuresPresents a new theory of modernist intertextualityBased on original archival research conducted at Barnes's archives at the University of MarylandIncludes the first reappraisal of the textual history of The Antiphon for two decadesUnseats Roland Barthes's dominant ideas about textual pleasure and theory's continued over-valuation of the model of jouissance
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds – Traumatic Modernism? -- Chapter 1 ‘The Excellent Arrangement of Catastrophe’: Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon -- Chapter 2 Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism and Ryder -- Chapter 3 ‘The Infected Carrier of the Past’: Nightwood, Shame and Modernism -- Chapter 4 ‘That Magic Reiteration’: Ladies Almanack and Happiness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpusJulie 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 aesthetics and the politics of reading. How do we reconcile Djuna Barnes's biographical writing with her Modernist commitment to impersonality?How do we honour the complexities of traumatic experience without pathologising the subject? How might we differently imagine the relationship between Modernism and literary history? Should we take on faith the Modernist repudiation of emotion? Why do we find it so difficult to talk about the pleasures of reading?The five chapters 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'. Key featuresPresents a new theory of modernist intertextualityBased on original archival research conducted at Barnes's archives at the University of MarylandIncludes the first reappraisal of the textual history of The Antiphon for two decadesUnseats Roland Barthes's dominant ideas about textual pleasure and theory's continued over-valuation of the model of jouissance

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In English.

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