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Following Djuna women lovers and the erotics of loss /

Following Djuna reads contemporary novelists in the tradition of Djuna Barnes, arguing for the importance of women's fiction in understanding women's erotics - emotional and sexual exchanges between women. Barnes's Nightwood, with its experimental form and passionate language, has mad...

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Main Author: Allen, Carolyn, 1943-
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1996]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (142 pages).
Series: Theories of representation and difference.
Subjects:
Harris, Bertha, -- 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Winterson, Jeanette, -- 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Brown, Rebecca, -- 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Barnes, Djuna -- Influence.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Erotic stories, English -- History and criticism.
Erotic stories, American -- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Lesbians in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Djuna Barnes and Bertha Harris
  • Reading Erotics/Following Djuna
  • pt. 1. Djuna Barnes: The Erotics of Nurture. 1. Nightwood: Gender, Narcissism, and the Erotic Maternal in the Narrative of Nora Flood. 2. Writing toward Nightwood: Seduction in the "Little Girl" Stories
  • pt. 2. Jeanette Winterson: The Erotics of Risk
  • pt. 3. Rebecca Brown: The Erotics of Excess and the Difficulties of Difference.

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