| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) |
| Series |
Literary Modernism Ser |
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Literary Modernism Ser
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| Contents |
Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles: "Two Very Serious Ladies"; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: "Mobility, the Quest for the Sublime": Nomadic Modernisms, Aesthetic Travels, and Diasporic Journeys; Part 1: Renegade Aesthetics of Djuna Barnes; Introduction to Part 1; 2 Short Stories and Renegade "Night Woods"; 3 The Landless Race of Ryder and the Ryder Aesthetes: Mock Almanacs of Experimentation and Intermediality; 4 "The Pastures in Which the Night Feeds": The Heart Politics and the Music of Holy(Night)Wood |
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5 Métachorie as Decomposition Illustrated: The Dance of Aesthetic Synthesis in Barnes's Journalism, Poetry, and One-Act Plays6 "There's Nothing like Destruction for an Aim": The Antiphon's Theatre of Ideas or State Politics?; Part 2: Nomadic Topographies of Jane Bowles; Introduction to Part 2; 7 Tawdry Nomadographies and Transcultural Frontiers: Two Serious Ladies and the Politics of Nomadism; 8 Short Stories and the Vendetta of Nomadic Politics; 9 Theatre of Pastoral Cruelty; 10 Conclusion: "Two Very Serious Ladies" and Their Journeys; Works Cited; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2016) |
| Subject |
Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Exiles in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Nomads in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016040724 |
| ISBN |
9004314431 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004314436 (electronic bk.) |
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(hardcover) (acid-free paper) |
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(hardcover) (acid-free paper) |
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