{"product_id":"djuna-barnes-and-theology-melancholy-body-theodicy-9781350256064","title":"Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Zhao Ng\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernism, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083327004823,"sku":"9781350256064","price":3834.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350256064.webp?v=1768545411","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/djuna-barnes-and-theology-melancholy-body-theodicy-9781350256064","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}