Djuna Barnes and Theology
Melancholy, Body, Theodicy
Seiten
2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25602-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25602-6 (ISBN)
Modernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes's writings and art. Examining the role of Barnes’s theological imagination in relation to a phenomenology of suffering, joy, and sexed embodiment, this book unfolds an intricate synthesis of theology, psychoanalysis, and narrative theory to interrogate how queerness informs her art.
Providing an original contribution to religious and literary theory, Ng develops a neo-ontological account of melancholy in relation to the myth of the Fall and provides a novel framework for understanding comedy and tragedy in relation to the question of theodicy.
Presented in light of a large body of new archival evidence, Barnes’s works are also examined for the first time in relation to a wide range of intertextual and intermedial encounters, including the medieval mysticism of Marguerite Porete, Stravinsky’s music, 16th- and 18th-century engravings by Albrecht Dürer and Joseph Ottinger, and French and Russian literature from Baudelaire and Lautréamont to Proust and Dostoevsky.
Providing an original contribution to religious and literary theory, Ng develops a neo-ontological account of melancholy in relation to the myth of the Fall and provides a novel framework for understanding comedy and tragedy in relation to the question of theodicy.
Presented in light of a large body of new archival evidence, Barnes’s works are also examined for the first time in relation to a wide range of intertextual and intermedial encounters, including the medieval mysticism of Marguerite Porete, Stravinsky’s music, 16th- and 18th-century engravings by Albrecht Dürer and Joseph Ottinger, and French and Russian literature from Baudelaire and Lautréamont to Proust and Dostoevsky.
Zhao Ng is currently a non-stipendiary Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, UK. Previous and forthcoming academic articles include work on Djuna Barnes, André Breton, Wyndham Lewis, Hegel, Lacan, and Heidegger.
Preface: Theology and the Queer Body
Introduction: A Dialectic of Melancholy and Theodicy
1Melancholy and the Fall
2Comedy I: Ladies Almanack and The Lesbian Sensorium
3Comedy II: Ryder, Rape, and Recurrence
4Tragedy I: Nightwood and the Eschatological Body
5Tragedy II: The Antiphon and the Refusal of History
Conclusion: Life or Death
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in Religion and Literature |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 485 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-25602-1 / 1350256021 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-25602-6 / 9781350256026 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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