Djuna Barnes and affective modernism

Taylor, Julie (2012) Djuna Barnes and affective modernism. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748646753

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Abstract

Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. Julie 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' 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'.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: literature, literary criticism
Subjects: Q200 Comparative Literary studies
R900 Others in European Languages, Literature and related subjects
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
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Depositing User: Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited: 13 Nov 2012 10:11
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2017 08:28
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/10255

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