{"product_id":"9781350256064","title":"Djuna Barnes and Theology : Melancholy, Body, Theodicy (New Directions in Religion and Literature)","description":"\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\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48960828014827,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":74.98,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781350256064-1.jpg?v=1783098354","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9781350256064","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}