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Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

By Bonnie Roos

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Contemporary literature

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2014-06-19
Publication Date:
2014-06-19
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472530667
ISBN13:
9781472530660
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
508 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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