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Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood", 2008.
Looks at the symbolic function of homosexuality in Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood".
1,315 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that Djuna Barnes's classic novel "Nightwood" was one of the few great modernist works to address the subject of homosexuality in such an explicit light. The novel deals with the tumultuous relationship of Nora and Robin, a pair of lesbians, and their circle of friends, most notably Matthew, a gay doctor. The author selects a few passages to examine the symbolic role that homosexuality plays throughout the novel particularly within the symbolic polarity of "night" versus "day". The paper explores the connection articulated by Barnes between homosexuality and death and attempts to unravel the complex implications of such an association.
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"The third chapter, "Watchman, What of the Night?" explores this notion of homosexuals as "night people" in great detail. Shortly after Robin has left Nora, Nora shows up at Matthew's house one night around three in the morning in order to discuss her loss. While arriving unexpectedly on someone's doorstep at such a late hour would be considered highly unusual from a "normal" perspective, it seems perfectly natural within the discourse of the "night people" that Barnes has set up in her work. In lieu of consolation, Matthew offers Nora a prolonged discourse on the nature of homosexuality."
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"Nightwood", 2004.
A review of the novel, "Nightwood", written by Djuna Barnes.
1,803 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses the novel, "Nightwood", by Djuna Barnes. The paper analyzes the book as a postmodern novel in every respect, from the stream-of-consciousness style of writing to the underlying sexual and homosexual themes that could only exist in postmodern writing of the 20th century.
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"Author Djuna Barnes was born in 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Her mother was a violinist, and her father was a farmer and painter. Her parents instilled a love of the arts early in her life, and her father's free-spirited enthusiasm also greatly influenced her and her work. Her mother and grandmother were the main caregivers in her life, and she was schooled outside the school system of the time. She attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Art Students League, briefly. Her parents divorced during this time, and she began working as a journalist and freelance illustrator, and moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, where she lived a "Bohemian" life. She began to write poetry, plays, and wrote for several newspapers, too. It was during this time that she began to drink quite heavily, and she was hospitalized several times in her life for drinking problems."
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"Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, 1992.
A look at the use of imagery to describe the characters' psychological realities.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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"The most basic use of imagery is the conveyance of who, what, when or where to keep an audience involved in the physical details of a recounting. But Djuna Barnes does not use imagery on the basic level. Her use of imagery in Nightwood exceeds the physical details and paints a psychological picture with her words. This statement, also, is not completely accurate for the images she creates are more fully dimensional than the trite allusion to a "terror-stricken, victim" which could be construed as psychological; Barnes' victim would know terror "like she knew the fetus that even now fought against her shallow breathing like a caged beast". The imagery of the second example breathes and fights, and the universal image of the womb plays on deep levels within our own psyches to evoke a response the first example cannot possibly imagine. Though the imagery used by Djuna Barnes..."
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