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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Pender (Teacher, University of Sydney) , Cathryn Setz (Associate Member of English, University of Oxford)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 27 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780271082219ISBN 10: 0271082216 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 25 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz Part 1: Modernism in Print 1 Djuna Barnes on the Page Alex Goody 2 Djuna Barnes’s Short Stories in A Night Among the Horses (1929) and Spillway (1962) Elizabeth Pender Part 2: Human and Beast 3 Nightwood ’s Humans Rachel Potter 4 Djuna Barnes’s Creatures in an Alphabet: From A for Anecdotage to Z for Zoomancy Bruce Gardiner 5 Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, and the Making of the Lesbian Modernist Grotesque Joanne Winning Part 3: Barnesean Style 6 The Critique of Modernist Wit: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood Drew Milne 7 “Trees of Heaven”: Djuna Barnes’s Late Metaphysical Verse Cathryn Setz 8 “If Some Strong Woman”: Djuna Barnes’s Great Capacity for All Things Uncertain Daniela Caselli 9 “The Havoc of Nicety”: Djuna Barnes’s Ryder and the Catastrophe of Epochal Change Tyrus Miller Part 4: Modernist Afterlives 10 Djuna Barnes: The Flower of Her Secret Melissa Jane Hardie 11 Making Contact: Affect, Queer Historiography, and “Our Djuna” Julie Taylor Afterword Peter Nicholls Selected Bibliography Elizabeth Pender Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsShattered Objects offers an invaluable revision of how we understand one of modernism's most beguiling authors. -Peter Adkins, The Modernist Review With Shattered Objects, we at last get a full look at [Barnes's] broad range of artistic achievements. -Megan N. Liberty, Brooklyn Rail Shattered Objects is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art. -Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture This handsomely-produced and carefully-assembled collection bespeaks a certain maturity in 'Barnes studies,' while also pulling off the trick of recognising that term's problematic status, given the author's mocking resistance to all that we associate with author studies: a consolidated academic community, a firm sense of literary periodicity, a relatively stable aesthetics stance, a coherent world-view. -Tim Armstrong, Affirmations of the Modern Shattered Objects offers an invaluable revision of how we understand one of modernism's most beguiling authors. -Peter Adkins, The Modernist Review With Shattered Objects, we at last get a full look at [Barnes's] broad range of artistic achievements. -Megan N. Liberty, Brooklyn Rail Shattered Objects is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art. -Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture Shattered Objects is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art. -Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture With Shattered Objects, we at last get a full look at [Barnes's] broad range of artistic achievements. -Megan N. Liberty, Brooklyn Rail Shattered Objects offers an invaluable revision of how we understand one of modernism's most beguiling authors. -Peter Adkins, The Modernist Review This handsomely-produced and carefully-assembled collection bespeaks a certain maturity in 'Barnes studies,' while also pulling off the trick of recognising that term's problematic status, given the author's mocking resistance to all that we associate with author studies: a consolidated academic community, a firm sense of literary periodicity, a relatively stable aesthetics stance, a coherent world-view. -Tim Armstrong, Affirmations of the Modern Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz's wide-ranging collection ultimately reveals the 'difficult' Djuna Barnes to be the talented and versatile Djuna Barnes--a writer of sheer modernist multiplicity--about whom there will always be more to say. -Jade French, Times Literary Supplement Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz's wide-ranging collection ultimately reveals the 'difficult' Djuna Barnes to be the talented and versatile Djuna Barnes--a writer of sheer modernist multiplicity--about whom there will always be more to say. -Jade French, Times Literary Supplement This handsomely-produced and carefully-assembled collection bespeaks a certain maturity in 'Barnes studies,' while also pulling off the trick of recognising that term's problematic status, given the author's mocking resistance to all that we associate with author studies: a consolidated academic community, a firm sense of literary periodicity, a relatively stable aesthetics stance, a coherent world-view. -Tim Armstrong, Affirmations of the Modern Shattered Objects offers an invaluable revision of how we understand one of modernism's most beguiling authors. -Peter Adkins, The Modernist Review With Shattered Objects, we at last get a full look at [Barnes's] broad range of artistic achievements. -Megan N. Liberty, Brooklyn Rail Shattered Objects is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art. -Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture Author InformationElizabeth Pender has taught English literature at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge. She is currently based at the University of Sydney. Cathryn Setz is Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and the founder of the Djuna Barnes Research Seminar. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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