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âNothing erased but much submergedâ: Recent Developments in Djuna Barnes Studies Daniela Caselli, Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnesâs Bewildering Corpus (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2009). 300pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5200-7. Monika Faltejskova, Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism (London: Routledge, 2010). 224pp. ISBN: 978-0-41599626-6. Diane Warren, Djuna Barnesâ Consuming Fictions (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008). 206pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-3920-6. Djuna Barnes â author, poet, playwright, modernist, and woman â has consistently evaded categorisation, and since her death in 1982 much critical speculation and theorisation has been devoted to her life and work; in particular, to her 1936 novel, Nightwood. Her oeuvre continues to elude deï¬nition, but the last three years have seen the development of a critical view regarding her work that embraces the impossibility of truly âpositioningâ Barnesâ work, seeing her elusiveness as an essential part of her literary identity. Diane Warrenâs Djuna Barnesâ Consuming Fictions focuses on Barnesâ perception of cultural boundaries, and the construction of the individual in a cultural âmatrixâ (xvi), studying in detail the role of narrative in this construction, and the problems inherent in the acts of both representation and interpretation. Her study works through Barnesâ corpus chronologically, drawing on a range of
Modernist Cultures – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2010
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