Djuna Barnes

In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Djuna 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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parsons, Deborah L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Series:Writers and Their Work Series.
Subjects:
Barnes, Djuna, > 1892-1982 > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Biographical Outline
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Fleur du Mal: Early Writings
  • 2 A Female Comic Epic: Ryder
  • 3 Sapphic Satire: Ladies Almanack
  • 4 Barnes' s Hilarious Sorrow: Nightwood
  • 5 Epilogue: The Antiphon
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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