{"product_id":"djuna-barnes-and-theology-zhao-ng-9781350256064","title":"Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy","description":"\u003cp\u003eModernism, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zhao Ng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350256064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350256064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Zhao Ng","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079790653695,"sku":"9781350256064","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0843ff3d-a3a1-4649-b53c-84b997e939a0.jpg?v=1685483158","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/djuna-barnes-and-theology-zhao-ng-9781350256064","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}