Improper Modernism

Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus

• Author(s): Daniela Caselli,
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 0754652009
  ISBN_13: 9780754652007
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Women Authors ,

Description:... Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Djuna Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation and tackles a central issue in Barnes: intertextuality. Caselli shows that throughout Barnes's corpus, the repetition of texts, by other authors (from Blake to Middleton) and by Barnes herself, forces us to rethink the relationship between authority and gender in modernism.