Shattered objects : Djuna Barnes's modernism /

"A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pender, Elizabeth, 1981- (Editor), Setz, Cathryn, 1983- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Series:Refiguring modernism.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Djuna Barnes on the page / Alex Goody
  • Djuna Barnes's short stories in A night among the horses (1929) and Spillway (1962) / Elizabeth Pender
  • Nightwood's humans / Rachel Potter
  • Djuna Barnes's Creatures in an alphabet : from A for anecdotage to Z for zoomancy / Bruce Gardiner
  • Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, and the making of the making of the lesbian modernist grotesque / Joanne Winning
  • The critique of modernist wit : Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Drew Milne
  • "Trees of heaven" : Djuna Barnes's late metaphysical verse / Cathryn Setz
  • "If some strong woman" : Djuna Barnes's great capacity for all things uncertain / Daniela Caselli
  • "The havoc of nicety" : Djuna Barnes's Ryder and the catastrophe of epochal change / Tyrus Miller
  • Djuna Barnes : the flower of her secret / Melissa Jane Hardie
  • Making contact : affect, queer historiography, and "our Djuna" / Julie Taylor.