Beyond difference : history, affect, and Djuna Barnes's New Modernist subject

This thesis examines the role of affect, subjectivity, and intertextuality in the major works of Djuna Barnes (1892-1982). I propose a theory of Barnes’s modernist textuality based on the traumatic structure of belated understanding; specifically, I consider how remembering trauma involves a re-enac...

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Main Author: Taylor, J. V.
Other Authors: Coulson, Victoria
Published: University of York 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520060