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Bonnie Roos - Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

The World and the Politics of Peace

Av Bonnie Roos

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Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood. In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of Herbert Bayard Swope's popular New York newspaper The World to demonstrate the ways in which the novel wrestles with such contemporaneous issues as the Great Depression and its political fallout, the failures of the League of Nations and the collapse of peace between the two World Wars. Roos argues that Nightwood allegorizes the role of liberal newspapers - epitomised by the sensationalism of The World - in driving a US policy that hastened the arrival of war.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-02-25
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
  • Vikt: 327 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781474275590
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Bonnie Roos is Associate Professor of English at West Texas A&M University, USA. Her previous publications include (as co-editor) Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (2010).

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Nightwood, when celebrated at all, has traditionally been celebrated as a sort of sui generis glorious mess: critics are more likely to gesture toward it reverently than to engage it critically. In this entirely fresh and surprising reading, Bonnie Roos succeeds admirably in demonstrating just how carefully and cunningly wrought Barnes's novel is, and what prodigious cultural and political work it's still capable of. Roos restores to us the Nightwood that so entranced and menaced her editor T. S. Eliot, and in the process, pays tribute to the novel's ungovernable energies.

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