Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions

Diane Warren (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-61946-3 (ISBN)

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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

Contents: Introduction: 'realism is no food for a child'; The critical context; Travels with the pen performer; 'Everything is true that is honoured'; 'Gleanings from the shores of Mytilene': parody pastiche and the Almanack; Dying to be an individual; 'Only the scorned and the ridiculous make good stories'; 'The fadged up ends of discontent'; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-61946-9 / 1138619469
ISBN-13	978-1-138-61946-3 / 9781138619463
Zustand	Neuware