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Spectacular Shadows: Djuna Barnes's Styles of Estrangement in Nightwood

This paper examines Djuna Barnes's Modernist masterpiece, Nightwood, by exploring the author's particular styles of writing. As an ironist, a master of spectacle, and a visual artist, Barnes's distinct stylistic roles allow the writer to construct a strange fictional world that transcends simple categorization and demands close reading. Through textual analysis, consideration of how Barnes's characterization, and engagement with key critical interpretations lead to the conclusion that Nightwood's primary aim is to present the reader with an image of his or her own individual estrangement.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cmc_theses-1359
Date01 January 2012
CreatorsBellman, Erica Nicole
PublisherScholarship @ Claremont
Source SetsClaremont Colleges
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Rights© 2012 Erica Nicole Bellman

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