- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Northcote House Publishers Ltd (Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0746309449
- ISBN-13: 978-0746309445
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,408,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have reawakened 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' 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 the psychological and stylistic aspect of Barnes' work through close analysis of the texts within their social, cultural and aesthetic context, and provides an indispensable and enriching guide to Barnes' artistic identity and poetic vision. Barnes' determined inversion of generic, social, sexology, degeneration, ethnography and decadence, her unusual childhood, her professional friendships with T.S. Eliot and James Joyce, and her controversial lesbianism are all highlighted and discussed in this introduction to a bold and enigmatic writer.
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just when you thought you really couldn't escape LOTR ROTK, fellowships, imprisoned wizards etc. this prolific author releases another breath of fresh air! Easily matching the quality of her previous 2 tomes, this is a veritable gem of a publication, that really should adorn the bookshelfs and bedside tables of Britain, and any other country whose language it is translated into. Cracking!
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