Modernist Fiction and “the accumulation of unrecorded life”

Ophir, Ella

doi:10.3366/e2041102209000148

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“…A particularly fruitful approach considered Barnes in conjunction with two major aspects: her close intertextual nods to Robert Burton's 1621 work The Anatomy of Melancholy and a psychoanalytic reading of melancholy in various modernist texts. Barnes famously commented, “melancholia, melancholia—it rides me like a bucking mare.” Studies aimed at finding a way of reading Barnes with this in mind without reducing everything to the tragic or overly biographical proved an interesting exercise (see Sherbert, Sánchez‐Pardo, Copeland, Stange , Chait and Ophir). In an essay reflective of these currents, Deborah Parsons' contribution to The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel now focused on the author's “melancholic modernism” as a primary interpretive strategy ()…”

Section: –2007: Modernity Modernitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“The Great Djuna:” Two Decades of Barnes Studies, 1993–2013

Setz

2014

Literature Compass

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From virtual oblivion, to queer feminist rebel, to significant author of the early twentieth century, Djuna Barnes has begun to be regarded an integral figure in studies of modernist literary history. Her work requires a particular attention to “high” and “low” material culture, style and form, and offers productive challenges to (among other things) genre, narratives of trauma, sexual and racial constructions of identity, exilic and transnational subjects. As students and scholars come to the author through recent critical work attuned to her modernist literary and artistic practices, it is important to take stock of this growing field. Intended as an introductory guide focused on three waves of scholarship since 1993, this article maps the key pioneering and influential critical voices, issues and directions that have illuminated Barnes studies over the past twenty years. “The great Djuna,” as one critic called her, is a moniker finally shedding its outdated irony.

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Section: –2007: Modernity Modernitymentioning

confidence: 99%