“Obscene and touching”–the tainted aesthetic of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
A number of scholars have viewed obscenity in Djuna Barnes’s writing as primarily a question of eluding institutional and societal constraints. Her novel Nightwood (1936) was partially bowdlerized at editorial stage to avoid censorship on account of its male homosexual content. But obscenity also li...
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/27773 |