Custer's Last Stand
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Custer's Last Stand popular name for the fight between the American cavalry and the Sioux at Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876, in which George Armstong
Custer was killed.
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Djuna Barnes: an updated bibliography. (Djuna Barnes) (Bibliography)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes (Carbondale: Southern Illinois...the Stars: The Short Plays of Djuna Barnes. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon...Commentary Andre, Michael, ed. "Djuna Barnes, et al." Unmuzzled Ox Anthology...
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Zadel Barnes: journalist. (Djuna's grandmother) (Djuna Barnes)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...from earliest days, when Djuna was Zadel's devoted pupil...years following the divorce of Djuna's parents Wald and Elizabeth Barnes in 1912. Zadel had orchestrated...risque behavior mentioned in Djuna Barnes's Ryder, a family chronicle...
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Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...is prerequisite to the latter. Djuna Barnes is no exception. Or is she? Unlike...Ernest Hemingway's, does the name Djuna Barnes--"the most famous unknown of...blown myths. This has cheapened Djuna Barnes. It never would ave happened in...
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Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Phillip Herring's biography of Djuna Barnes is a wonderful "read" and a treasury...had his work cut out for him. Djuna Barnes' life yields marvelous materials...than most fiction--rivalling Djuna Barnes' own strange fiction--it becomes...
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DJUNA BARNES AND T. S. ELIOT: THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF NIGHTWOOD(1).
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Nightwood is an embattled one. Djuna Barnes began the novel emerging from a...after her ninetieth birthday, Djuna Barnes died in the one-room Patchin...s Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes (1995), both of which provide...
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Intruder in the text: Faulkner's Djuna Barnes
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...s appropriation of the work of Djuna Barnes into his own fiction that provides...practice of quoting the work of Djuna Barnes in Intruder in the Dust and The...of Faulkner's citations from Djuna Barnes's writing in Intruder in the...
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Djuna Barnes's mystery in Morocco: making the most of little. (Djuna Barnes)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; Djuna Barnes would seem in most ways to...We speedily despise." Djuna Barnes was never one to be despised...that point in my research: Djuna had lived with Thelma for...year had saved her mind, Barnes wrote: "I thought I was...
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`Tendency to precocity' and `childish uncertainties' of a `virago at fourteen': Djuna Barnes's `The Diary of a Dangerous Child'.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...introduction to his edition of Djuna Barnes's Collected Stories (1) claims...hinting at her angst. `Despite Djuna Barnes's skill at portraying the agony...nuances of racial stereotyping than Djuna Barnes, but this was a function more...
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Barnes's 'Nightwood.' (intepretation of Djuna Barnes' novel)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/1997; ; 678 words
; ...Carolina University WORKS CITED Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. New York: Faber...Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes. New York: Viking, 1995. Plumb...Introduction. Nightwood. By Djuna Barnes. Normal, IL: Dalkey, 1995.
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"A love from back of the heart": the story Djuna wrote for Charles Henri. (Charles Henri Ford) (Djuna Barnes)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Pamphlet of Sonnets,(3) to Djuna Barnes. These revealing discourses on...Behind the Heart," the story Djuna Barnes wrote for Charles Henri Ford in...significance for the lives of both Djuna Barnes and Charles Henri Ford, maverick...
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Djuna Barnes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a major literary figure in Paris of the 1920s and 1930s, who retired into reclusiveness and produced only a small body of work. Amajor figure on the Paris literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, Djuna...
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Barnes, Djuna
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Barnes, Djuna (1892–1982), New York‐born author long resident in Europe. Her first major work was A Book (1923...
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Barnes, Djuna Chappell
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Barnes, Djuna Chappell (1892–1982), American writer, is best remembered for Nightwood (1936), a novel which evokes, in highly...
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Lewin, Albert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...between the commercially viable and the artistically daring in his own inimitable way. Friends with the likes of writers Djuna Barnes and Robert Graves, artist Man Ray, and director Jean Renoir, Lewin had given up a nascent career as scholar and critic...
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Barnett, Sheridan
Book article from: Contemporary Fashion
...1984 collection was inspired by the "unorthodox approach to dressing" of literary heroines Vita Sackville-West and Djuna Barnes. Removing the frills, trims, and fuss he claims to hate, Barnett believes customers should add their own style to...
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