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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Refiguring modernism.
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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.