Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003803611
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes S Nightwood
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Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266814
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Pdf
Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. ' Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.' Jeanette Winterson 'Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' Eileen Myles 'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... T he story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much. ' Siri Hustvedt Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional. 'A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem ... The closest thing to James Joyce.' Andre Aciman 'The great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy.' T.S. Eliot 'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.' William S. Burroughs 'A writer of wild and original gifts . To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of Nightwood , a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.' Elizabeth Hardwick
Ladies Almanack
Djuna Barnes
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0916583880
Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes Pdf
Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arranged by month, it records the life and loves of Dame Evangeline Musset (modeled after salon hostess Natalie Barney) in a robust style taken from Shakespeare and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and is illustrated throughout with Barnes's own drawings. This new edition is a facsimile of the 1928 edition with the addition of an afterword providing details on the book's origins and a key to its real-life models.
Improper Modernism
Daniela Caselli
Author : Daniela Caselli
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754652009
Improper Modernism by Daniela Caselli Pdf
Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Djuna Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation and tackles a central issue in Barnes: intertextuality. Caselli shows that throughout Barnes's corpus, the repetition of texts, by other authors (from Blake to Middleton) and by Barnes herself, forces us to rethink the relationship between authority and gender in modernism.
The Postmodern Fairytale
Kevin Paul Smith
Author : Kevin Paul Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230591707
The Postmodern Fairytale by Kevin Paul Smith Pdf
Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most unexpected places and why the best storytellers begin their tales with 'once upon a time'.
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Djuna Barnes
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571354672
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes Pdf
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.' Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.
The Antiphon
Djuna Barnes
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1892295563
The Antiphon by Djuna Barnes Pdf
Djuna Barnes's great verse drama, written in part about her own family, was first published in 1958, and was last reprinted in her Selected Writings of 1962. Since that time the play has been out of print. The play certainly is a strange one; even the author observes in her cautionary note to the volume that 'a misreading of the Antiphon is not impossible'.
A Book
Djuna Barnes
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547056089
A Book by Djuna Barnes Pdf
Aptly titled 'A Book', this collection of short stories and poetry was written by Djuna Barnes, an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
There but for the
Ali Smith
Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141970103
There but for the by Ali Smith Pdf
There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they at first appear. There but for the was hailed as one of the best books of 2011 by Jeanette Winterson, A.S. Byatt, Patrick Ness, Sebastian Barry, Boyd Tonkin, Erica Wagner and Nick Barley. 'Dazzlingly inventive' A.S. Byatt 'Whimsically devastating. Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting' Guardian 'A real gem' Erica Wagner, The Times 'Eccentric, adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read' Literary Review 'If you liked Smith's earlier fiction, you will know that she enjoys setting up a situation before chucking in a literary Molotov cocktail then describing what happens' Sunday Express 'Wonderful, word-playful, compelling' Jeanette Winterson 'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard
Shattered Objects
Elizabeth Pender,Cathryn Setz
Author : Elizabeth Pender,Cathryn Setz
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271082216
Shattered Objects by Elizabeth Pender,Cathryn Setz Pdf
A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.
Gothic Modernisms
A. Smith,J. Wallace
Author : A. Smith,J. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333985236
Gothic Modernisms by A. Smith,J. Wallace Pdf
This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the Modernist concern with the psyche and the paranoia of the everyday. The contributors explore how the Gothic influences a range of writers including James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen and Djuna Barnes.
Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
Bonnie Roos
Author : Bonnie Roos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472529367
Djuna Barnes's Nightwood by Bonnie Roos Pdf
Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood. In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of Herbert Bayard Swope's popular New York newspaper The World to demonstrate the ways in which the novel wrestles with such contemporaneous issues as the Great Depression and its political fallout, the failures of the League of Nations and the collapse of peace between the two World Wars. Roos argues that Nightwood allegorizes the role of liberal newspapers - epitomised by the sensationalism of The World - in driving a US policy that hastened the arrival of war.
The Outside Thing
Hannah Roche
Author : Hannah Roche
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231547697
The Outside Thing by Hannah Roche Pdf
In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford’s Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as “the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.” Hannah Roche takes Stein’s definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. The Outside Thing offers original readings of both canonical and peripheral texts, including Stein’s first novel Q.E.D. (Things As They Are), Hall’s Adam’s Breed and The Well of Loneliness, and Barnes’s early writing alongside Nightwood. Is there an inside space for lesbian writing, or must it always seek refuge elsewhere? Crossing established lines of demarcation between the in and the out, the real and the romantic, and the Victorian and the modernist, The Outside Thing presents romance as a heterosexual plot upon which lesbian writers willfully set up camp. These writers boldly adopted and adapted the romance genre, Roche argues, as a means of staking a queer claim on a heteronormative institution. Refusing to submit or surrender to the “straight” traditions of the romance plot, they turned the rules to their advantage. Drawing upon extensive archival research, The Outside Thing is a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism.
Silence and Power
Mary Lynn Broe
Author : Mary Lynn Broe
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809312557
Silence and Power by Mary Lynn Broe Pdf
Seventeen essayists study this enigmatic author's works--not in the traditional style in which they were first reviewed, but rather through a range of contemporary interpretations that resituate Barnes in the context of literary theory and feminist revisions of modernism. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015031832176
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Pdf
Nightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys: her husband "Baron" Felix Volkbein and their child Guido, and the two women who love her, Nora Flood and Jenny Petherbridge. Commenting on them all is Doctor Matthew O'Connor, whose outlandish monologues elevate their romantic losses to the level of Elizabethan tragedy.