Djuna Barnes And Affective Modernism Julie Taylor by Julie Taylor 9780748646760, 0748646760 instant download after payment.

Julie Taylor uses the writings of the American novelist, poet, dramatist, artist and journalist Djuna Barnes to form the basis of a series of disruptive questions about modernist aesthetics and the politics of reading.

The five chapters 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'.

• Presents a new theory of modernist intertextuality
• Based on original archival research conducted at Barnes's archives at the University of Maryland
• Includes the first reappraisal of the textual history of The Antiphon for two decades
• Unseats Roland Barthes's dominant ideas about textual pleasure and theory's continued over-valuation of the model of jouissance