Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the American modernist novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Djuna Barnes, favoring signed articles and articles published in peer-reviewed sources

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introduction & literary criticism

"Djuna Barnes." A brief introduction from The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

"Djuna Barnes." A Teacher's Guide, from Heath.

Bombaci, Nancy. "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear": the female interviewer as subject/object in Djuna Barnes's journalism. Criticism Spring 2002.

Fleischer, Georgette. "Djuna Barnes and T. S. Eliot: The Politics and Poetics of Nightwood." Studies in the Novel 30 (1998).

Henstra, Sarah. Looking the Part: Performative Narration in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Katherine Mansfield's "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais." Twentieth Century Literature Summer 2000.

Parsons, Deborah. "Djuna Barnes." A substantial introduction, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7 July 2001 [subscription service].

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