Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy
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.
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Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy
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.
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Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

by Zhao Ng
Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

by Zhao Ng

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350256040
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/13/2022
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Zhao Ng is currently a non-stipendiary Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, UK. Previous and forthcoming academic articles include work on Djuna Barnes, André Breton, Wyndham Lewis, Hegel, Lacan, and Heidegger.
Zhao Ng is a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Her articles have been published by or are forthcoming with English Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, symploke, Literature and Theology, and Religion&Literature.

Table of Contents

Preface: Theology and the Queer Body
Introduction: A Dialectic of Melancholy and Theodicy
1Melancholy and the Fall
2Comedy I: Ladies Almanack and The Lesbian Sensorium
3Comedy II: Ryder, Rape, and Recurrence
4Tragedy I: Nightwood and the Eschatological Body
5Tragedy II: The Antiphon and the Refusal of History
Conclusion: Life or Death
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