Mary Lynn Broe

Standard Name: Broe, Mary Lynn

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Textual Features Djuna Barnes
Phillip Herring calls Ryderessentially an autobiographical family chronicle in experimental form.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin.
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In this highly allusive novel, DB imitates and parodies a wide range of literary styles, from Chaucer to nineteenth-century sentimental novels.
Broe, Mary Lynn. “Introduction”. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 3-23.
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Author summary Djuna Barnes
Best-known for her novel Nightwood, 1936, about her fellow Americans in Paris, DB wrote in a number of other genres: plays, short stories, poetry, and journalism. Other works like the Ladies Almanack defy generic...

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Broe, Mary Lynn. “Introduction”. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, Southern Illinois University Press, 1991, pp. 3-23.
Marcus, Jane. “Mousemeat: Contemporary Reviews of Nightwood”. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, edited by Mary Lynn Broe, Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.