Djuna Barnes' novel documents the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties.[...]

Nightwood is not only a classic of modernist literature, but was also acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.[...]

An illuminating and lucid study which examines the psychological and stylistic aspects of Djuna Barnes's work, including her modernist classic Nightwood, providing a stimulating introduction to a bold and enigmatic writer in the literary Paris of the 1920s and 1930s[...]

Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. The five chapters of this book 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'.[...]

Using the ideas of Kristeva and Lacan, this study examines works by four female authors to demonstrate that hysteria and melancholy/melancholia can be viewed as discourse and style when analyzing literary texts. This present study investigates how literature configures and gives voice to hysteria an[...]

When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes s Ryder, a bawdy mock- Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own, was described in the Saturday Review as the most amazing book ever written by a woman. One of modern literature s first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression,[...]

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s. Many of the poems in "The Book of Repulsive Women" first appea[...]

Djuna Barnes's great verse drama, written about her own family, was first published in 1958 and reprinted in her SELECTED WRITINGS of 1962. Since that time the play has been out of print. Upon its first publication, humanitarian-diplomat Dag Hammarskjold translated the play and oversaw its productio[...]

Kultförklarade Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) novellsamling En farlig flickas dagbok i översättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Boken innehåller 19 noveller som aldrig utkommit på svenska tidigare: Den herrelösa märren; Indiansommar; Finalen; Avsägelsen; Oscar; Modern; Vandringstrastens [...]