Product Description
first collection of Djuna Barnes' drawings ... Read more

Product Description
Published in newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1931, these pieces conjure up a magical, mythical city as Djuna Barnes is rescued by firemen, tangoed across the floor of local dancehalls, lectured to by suffragists and force-fed by the police. A reporter of "real" life, she goes in search of Chinatown, takes a boat trip round Manhattan Island, pursues a stone-cutter in the Bronx, and breakfasts in Bohemia with women who smoke a hundred cigarettes a day and spill their wine. From Brooklyn's Walkabout Market to the Hippodrome Circus, from a Long Island Boxing Club to the Italian theatre in the Bowery, from the beach of Coney Island to Greenwich Village with its "recollections like ears filled with muted music", we are introduced to a New York of energy and eccentricity, a place where anything can happen and anything goes. The illustrations are by the author herself. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Young JOON-uh shows her stuff!
This collection of 42 feature articles about New Yorkers reflects the journalistic years, 1913-1919, of Djuna Barnes (1892-1982). Her flair for writing is well demonstrated; admittedly she eventually sometimes spins off into such impressionism that it gives the reader pause. Her drawing, in 33 illustrations, can be loose, or Beardsley-like in its orientalism.

Among my favorite pieces: (1) Greenwich Village when it was really a big warren for struggling artists, and darkened rooms for smouldering denizens. (2) Coney Island for rambunctious families and for well-behaved dancers. (3) Opening day at school. (4) Veterans "in harness," old guys who stay on the job with dedication. (5) Decayed Chinatown. (6) Hippodrome circus. (7) Superstitions of some important New Yorkers. (8) Italian vaudeville house. (9) The many teashops off Fifth Avenue. (10) Djuna permits herself to bebound and force-fed through a tube in her nostril, like hunger-striking English suffragettes. (11) Djuna takes the boat trip around Manhattan, and the bus tour visiting Grant's Tomb. (12) Finally, WWI in progress, New York's War Camp Community Service takes care of our boys in uniform.

[In 1921, Djuna joined the American writers flocking to Paris, and turned to lesbian themes in her novel Nightwood (1936). Back in NY in 1940, her years of drinking and reclusiveness began.] ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 1993. The length of the article is 4158 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Djuna Barnes's writing does not lend itself to classification as modernist because it challenges aspects which are said to be tenets of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf's modernism. . Barnes rejects the idea of a reasonable universe where the traditional riddle-communication can provide answers. There is no concept of satisfaction in Barnes's confused and confusing world and there is no place in it for children who suggest a continuity of life. Barnes's deconstruction of life denies the possibility of peace or understanding.

Citation Details
Title: Modern (post) modern: Djuna Barnes among the others. (Djuna Barnes)
Author: Donna Gerstenberger
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v13Issue: n3Page: p33(8)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Virginia Woolf, Colette, Gertrude Stein, H.d., Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Pool Group, Anne Waldman, Amy Lowell, Susan Howe, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Gunvor Hofmo, Anneli Rufus, Lorine Niedecker, Diane Wakoski, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Grace Andreacchi, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Maxine Chernoff, Fanny Howe, Hilda Morley, Harryette Mullen, Diane Di Prima, Barbara Guest, Madeline Gleason, Dorothy Richardson, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, Bernadette Mayer, Kristin Prevallet, Adrienne Monnier, Margery Latimer, Joan Retallack, Tina Darragh, Janine Pommy Vega, Blanaid Salkeld, Eva Figes, Mary Devenport O'neill, Maggie O'sullivan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 249. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with her partner Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein also cultivated significant relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world. Stein was gregarious and had a wealth of friends and modern paintings that attracted many to her Paris salon. Her personality also allowed her to transform her social outlets, by focusing on new friendships, members of the youthful generation of the time. For example, Stein was friends with "up and coming" artists Matisse and Picasso in the early 1900s, writers Thornton Wilder and Ernest Hemingway in the 20s, and with the American GIs in the 40s. Each period ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=62004 ... Read more