Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism / / Julie Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Julie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 6 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds – Traumatic Modernism? --; Chapter 1 ‘The Excellent Arrangement of Catastrophe’: Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon --; Chapter 2 Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism and Ryder --; Chapter 3 ‘The Infected Carrier of the Past’: Nightwood, Shame and Modernism --; Chapter 4 ‘That Magic Reiteration’: Ladies Almanack and Happiness --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748646760; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748646760
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julie Taylor.

Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpusJulie 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's 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'. Key featuresPresents a new theory of modernist intertextualityBased on original archival research conducted at Barnes's archives at the University of MarylandIncludes the first reappraisal of the textual history of The Antiphon for two decadesUnseats Roland Barthes's dominant ideas about textual pleasure and theory's continued over-valuation of the model of jouissance