Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350256026)

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, joy, and sexed embodiment, this book unfolds an intricate synthesis of theology, psychoanalysis, and narrative theory to interrogate how queerness informs her art.

Providing an original contribution to religious and literary theory, Ng develops a neo-ontological account of melancholy in relation to the myth of the Fall and provides a novel framework for understanding comedy and tragedy in relation to the question of theodicy.

Presented in light of a large body of new archival evidence, Barnes's works are also examined for the first time in relation to a wide range of intertextual and intermedial encounters, including the medieval mysticism of Marguerite Porete, Stravinsky's music, 16th- and 18th-century engravings by Albrecht Dürer and Joseph Ottinger, and French and Russian literature from Baudelaire and Lautréamont to Proust and Dostoevsky.

Author: Zhao Ng
ISBN-10: 1350256021
ISBN-13: 9781350256026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2022
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d