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Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she remains a unique and idiosyncratic figure, unassimilated by models of American expatriate or Sapphic modernism. In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Barnes's oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the Ladies Almanack, and her late play The Antiphon, as well as her modernist classic Nightwood. She explores the psychological and stylistic aspect of Barnes's work through close analysis of the texts within their social, cultural and aesthetic context, and provides an indispensable and enriching guide to Barnes's artistic identity and poetic vision. Barnes's determined inversion of generic, social, sexology, degeneration, ethnography and decadence, her unusual childhood, her professional friendships with T.S. Eliot and James J
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Deborah L. Parsons is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2000). General Editor: Professor Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London
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- PublisherLiverpool University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0746309449
- ISBN 13 9780746309445
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