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Shattered Objects

Name: Shattered Objects
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271082202
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271082202

Djuna Barnes's Modernism

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Edited by Elizabeth Pender, Cathryn Setz
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 241 x 178 mm
Weight: 730 g
Pages: 248

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Djuna Barnes once said that there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object, and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes produced an eclectic body of work whose objects and surfaces continue to fascinate readers. In this volume, a series of internationally renowned scholars reassess both Barnes and modernism through a close examination of her prose, poetry, journalism, visual art, and drama.

From the modernist classic Nightwood to the late verse play The Antiphon, Barnes's distinctive voice has long resisted any easy assimilation into specific groupings of authors or texts. Responding to expansions of canons and critical questions that have shaped modernist studies since the late twentieth century, the chapters in this volume bring new thinking to her full oeuvre and collectively demonstrate that the study of modernism necessarily includes the study of Barnes. The contributors show Barnes's significant contributions to twenty-first-century discourses on topics such as the politics of print culture, the representation of animals and the human, queer aesthetics, modernist criticism, authorship, style, affect, and translation between media.

Featuring an afterword by Peter Nicholls and a comprehensive bibliography, Shattered Objects provides a timely assessment of Barnes and considers the implications of reading her critically as an important modernist writer and artist. It will be welcomed by scholars of literature, art history, and the modernist era.

In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Daniela Caselli, Bruce Gardiner, Alex Goody, Melissa Jane Hardie, Tyrus Miller, Drew Milne, Peter Nicholls, Rachel Potter, Julie Taylor, and Joanne Winning.

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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

Index

“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

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