Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and
Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. Julie Taylor uses the writings of the
American novelist, poet, dramatist, artist and journalist Djuna
Barnes to form the basis of a series of disruptive questions about
modernist aesthetics and the politics of reading. How do we
reconcile Djuna Barnes' biographical writing with her Modernist
commitment to impersonality? How do we honour the complexities of
traumatic experience without pathologising the subject? How might
we differently imagine the relationship between Modernism and
literary history? Should we take on faith the Modernist repudiation
of emotion? Why do we find it so difficult to talk about the
pleasures of reading? The five chapters reconsider modernist
intertextuality, affect and subjectivity to produce a series of
lively and compelling readings of the major works of the period's
most 'famous unknown'. Key features * Presents a new theory of
modernist intertextuality * Based on original archival research
conducted at Barnes' archives at the University of Maryland *
Includes the first reappraisal of the textual history of The
Antiphon for 20 years * Unseats Roland Barthes' dominant ideas
about textual pleasure and theory's continued over-valuation of the
model of jouissance
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