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    I Am Alien to Life

    Djuna Barnes

    The best of Djuna Barnes's dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.

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    Djuna

    Jon Macy

    A graphic biography of Djuna Barnes: writer, artist, and queer radical of the Lost Generation in the Roaring 20s.

    Djuna Barnes lived in a dazzling world filled with literary salons…

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    Ryder

    Djuna Barnes

    From the author of Nightwood Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad…

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    Djuna Barnes - Lament of Women & Other Rhythms

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    A collection of New York poet Djuna Barnes' poems, drawings, and a short-story, from the 1910s and 20s.

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    "...all Ladies should carry about with them [this almanack], as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and…

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    "...all Ladies should carry about with them [this almanack], as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and…

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    Djuna Barnes

    Deborah L. Parsons

    In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Djuna Barnes’s oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the…

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    The Lydia Steptoe Stories: Faber Stories

    Djuna Barnes

    In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and…

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    Nightwood

    Djuna Barnes

    Djuna Barnes’ extraordinary novel, Nightwood, documents the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris throughout the decadent roaring twenties.

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    Djuna Barnes

    Deborah L. Parsons

    In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Djuna Barnes’s oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the…

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    Djuna Barnes

    Djuna Barnes Number (Review of Contemporary Fiction)

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Combines visual artistry with literary parody, bawdy humour and zest for the sensual pleasures of love and friendship between strong-minded women.

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Offers a parody accompanied by the author’s illustrations. This book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were author’s literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted…

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Oh Zeus! Oh Diane! Oh Hellebore! Oh Absalom! Oh Piscary Right! What shall I do with it! To have been the First, that alone would have gifted me! As it…

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    A Book

    Djuna Barnes

    The book

    A Book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this…

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    Nightwood: Faber Modern Classics

    Djuna Barnes

    Tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful.

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    The Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Oh Zeus! Oh Diane! Oh Hellebore! Oh Absalom! Oh Piscary Right! What shall I do with it! To have been the First, that alone would have gifted me! As it…

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    Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

    Djuna Barnes

    Famous early works by the influential author include journalism (firsthand account of the force-feeding endured by suffragettes and an interview with James Joyce), poetry ( The Book of Repulsive Women…

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    Book of Repulsive Women

    Djuna Barnes

    Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel Nightwood is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work…

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    Modernist Poetics of Ageing

    Jade Elizabeth French

    What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D. answers this question by being the…

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    The Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Oh Zeus! Oh Diane! Oh Hellebore! Oh Absalom! Oh Piscary Right! What shall I do with it! To have been the First, that alone would have gifted me! As it…

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    Nightwood

    Djuna Barnes

    Korean edition of [Nightwood] by Djuna Barnes. That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes’ novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe’s great cities, Paris…

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    The Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Oh Zeus! Oh Diane! Oh Hellebore! Oh Absalom! Oh Piscary Right! What shall I do with it! To have been the First, that alone would have gifted me! As it…

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    This work is a novel in which real persons or actual events figure under disguise. Its subject is the predominantly lesbian social circle centering on Natalie Clifford Barney's salon in…

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    A Book

    Djuna Barnes

    A reprint of an early short story collection by the Modernist author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes.

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    Djuna Barnes’ Consuming Fictions

    Diane Warren

    In her new book,the author argues that Barnes’ writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to…

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    Djuna Barnes’ Consuming Fictions

    Diane Warren

    In her new book,the author argues that Barnes’ writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to…

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    Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism

    Dr. Julie Taylor

    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…

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    Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’s Modernism

    A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.

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    Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’s Modernism

    A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.

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    Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace

    Dr Bonnie Roos

    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…

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    Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace

    Bonnie Roos (West Texas A&M University, USA)

    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…

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    Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus

    Daniela Caselli

    By examining Djuna Barnes’ work, this title raises questions about biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. It shows how throughout Barnes’ corpus the repetition of…

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    Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

    Zhao Ng

    Modernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes’s writings and art. Examining the role of Barnes’s theological imagination in relation to a phenomenology of suffering…

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    Silence and Power: A RE-Evaluation of Djuna Barnes

    Roughly chronological, these essays explore Barnes’ early work in the New York newspaper world of the ‘teens, proceed through the 1954 publication of The Antiphon, and include several approaches to…

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    Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

    Zhao Ng

    Modernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes’s writings and art. Examining the role of Barnes’s theological imagination in relation to a phenomenology of suffering…

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    Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus

    Daniela Caselli

    By examining Djuna Barnes’ work, this title raises questions about biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. It shows how throughout Barnes’ corpus the repetition of…

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    Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920

    Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes

    This anthology collects the best poetry published in American magazines in 1920, including works by such luminaries as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. It also includes…

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    Ladies Almanack

    Djuna Barnes

    Now this be a Tale of as fine a Wench as ever wet Bed … Thus begins this Almanack, which all Ladies should carry about with them, as the Priest…

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    Fancy’s Craft: Art and Identity in the Early Works of Djuna Barnes

    Cheyrl Plumb

    This study places Djuna Barnes’s early work in the context of symbolist ideas and practices. It presents Barnes not only as a woman writer, but also as an American writer…

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    Ghost Words and Invisible Giants: H.D., Djuna Barnes, and the Language of Suffering

    Lheisa Dustin

    Lheisa Dustin describes language of suffering of iconic modernist authors H.D. and Djuna Barnes, tracing psychic splitting and virulent thought patterns in their creative works. She argues that this language…

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    Decadent Djuna: Eine Untersuchung Dekadenter Themen Und Motive Im Werk Von Djuna Barnes

    Anette Bretschneider

    Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Rheinisch-Westfealische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 1996.

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    Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism: Tracing Nightwood

    Monika Faltejskova,Monika Faltejskova

    Looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes’ writing. This work explores the editorial…

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    Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism: Tracing Nightwood

    Monika Faltejskova

    Looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes’ writing. This work explores the editorial…

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    Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein

    A. Goody

    This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude…

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    Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein

    A. Goody

    This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude…

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    Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras

    Michaela M. Grobbel

    Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Mieke Bal and others, author Michaela Grobbel focuses on the work three women authors as types of performance which lead to re-presentations…

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