Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a pioneering female journalist, experimental novelist, playwright, and poet whose influence on literary modernism was profound and whose writings anticipated many of the preoccupations of poststructuralist and feminist thought. In her new book,the author argues that Barnes' writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to present-day debates on identity. In particular, Warren traces the works' close engagement with the effects of cultural boundaries on the individual, showing how the journalism, Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and the early chapters of Nightwood energetically and playfully subvert such boundaries. In this reading, Nightwood is contextualised as a pivotal text which poses questions about the limits of subversion, thereby positioning The Antiphon (1958) as an analysis of why such boundaries are sometimes necessary. Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions shows that from the irreverent and carnivalesque iconoclasm of Barnes' early works, to the bleak assessment that conflict lies at the root of culture, seen from the close of Nightwood, Barnes' oeuvre offers a profound analysis of the relationship between culture, the individual and textual expression.

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a pioneering female journalist, experimental novelist, playwright, and poet whose influence on literary modernism was profound and whose writings anticipated many of the preoccupations of poststructuralist and feminist thought. In her new book,the author argues that Barnes' writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to present-day debates on identity. In particular, Warren traces the works' close engagement with the effects of cultural boundaries on the individual, showing how the journalism, Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and the early chapters of Nightwood energetically and playfully subvert such boundaries. In this reading, Nightwood is contextualised as a pivotal text which poses questions about the limits of subversion, thereby positioning The Antiphon (1958) as an analysis of why such boundaries are sometimes necessary. Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions shows that from the irreverent and carnivalesque iconoclasm of Barnes' early works, to the bleak assessment that conflict lies at the root of culture, seen from the close of Nightwood, Barnes' oeuvre offers a profound analysis of the relationship between culture, the individual and textual expression.

After three decades of penning massive hits for Celine Dion, Aerosmith, Toni Braxton, and many more, songwriting great Diane Warren is stepping out on her own with The Cave Sessions Vol. 1, out August 27th via Di-Namic Records/BMG. The album's eclectic guest list mixes legendary artists like Carlos Santana and Celine Dion with contemporary stars G-Eazy, Ty Dolla $ign, Maren Morris, and Luis Fonsi. Other notable contributors include Darius Rucker, John Legend, Leona Lewis, and Lauren Jauregui. Rounding out the features are Rita Ora, Batiste, Pentatonix, Sofia Reyes, Reik, James Arthur, Jimmie Allen, LP, Paloma Faith, and James Morrison.

Track list
Diane Warren, G-eazy & Santana - She's Fire
Diane Warren, Rita Ora & Sofma Reyes - Seaside (Feat. Reik)
Diane Warren, Jon Batiste & Pentatonix - Sweet
Diane Warren & Luis Fonsi - when We Dance Slow
Diane Warren & Maren Morris - I Save Me
Diane Warren & John Legend - Where is Your Heart
Diane Warren & Ty Dolla $ign - Drink You Away
Diane Warren & James Arthur - You Go First
Diane Warren & Lauren Jauregui - Not Prepared for You
Diane Warren & Jimmie Allen - You Kind of Beautiful
Diane Warren & LP - Domino
Diane Warren & Celine Dion - Superwoman
Diane Warren - Times Like This (Feat. Darius Rucker)
Diane Warren, Leona Lewis & James Morrison - Grow Old with M
Diane Warren & Paloma Faith - Blessings

When a young adventurer named Milo Thatch uncovers an old journal containing clues to the whereabouts of the sunken city of Atlantis, he wastes no time in putting together an expedition and setting off in search of the maritime metropolis. Heading deeper and deeper in their submarine, Milo and his crew brave many dangerous experiences, including a confrontation with a giant lobster, and are overjoyed when they finally find the underwater kingdom. However, after they reach their goal, it's not long before they discover a plot to seize all the power and riches it has to offer, and soon find themselves becoming the unlikely defenders of the lost civilisation.

Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novel Examines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, Switzerland Provides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studies Includes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approaches Offers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children's literature and family and kinship studies Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship. The chapters in the book explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, inheritance, illegitimacy, notions of the human and the development of the novel across a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts.

Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novel Examines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, Switzerland Provides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studies Includes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approaches Offers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children's literature and family and kinship studies Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship. The chapters in the book explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, inheritance, illegitimacy, notions of the human and the development of the novel across a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts.