Modernist Wastes

Recovery, Re-Use and the Autobiographic in Elsa von-Freytag-Lorighoven and Djuna Barnes

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Caroline Knighton, David Tucker

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Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collaborative auto/biographical writings of Djuna Barnes and the artist, poetic and Dada performer Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Caroline Knighton reveals how these very processes of discarding, recovery and re-use can open up new ways of understanding a distinctively female modernist artistic practice.Illustrated throughout with artworks, original letters and manuscript facsimiles, the book draws on new archival discoveries to place the feminist recovery of neglected female voices at the heart of our understanding of modernist and avant-garde literary culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-27
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt445 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistoricizing Modernism
Antal sidor314
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350249301

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Series Editor Preface List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Abbreviations INTRODUCTION: Textual Mess and Modernism’s Gendered Wastes i. Modernism and Barnesean Waste ii. What is Waste? Cities, Bodies, Texts CHAPTER ONE:Stunning Subjects and Disruptive Body Practices i. Marginality and Modernity: Critical Histories of Exclusion and the Case of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhovenii. Gods, Mutts and Readymades: ‘America’s Comfort - Sanitation!’iii. Calculated Containment: New Women and New York Dada’s Mecanamorphic Portaitsiv. Not Me, Not That: Baroness Elsa and the Grotesque Protrusions of Modernism’s Marginalia CHAPTER TWO: Art Dazzle: Modelling, Performance and the Baroness’s Self-Representational Practices i. Self-Representational Practices, Collage and the Baroness’s Dada Portraits ii. Making Mischief, or Looking Through a Glass Dynamically iii. Chimera in the Croquis Class: Spectacle, Performance and the Baroness’s Body-Work iv. Übermarionettes and Living StatuesCHAPTER THREE: ‘Not Dead’: Djuna Barnes’s Mature Auto/biographic Poetics i. ‘This Generation’s Vulgarity’: Djuna Barnes and the Biographic Impulseii. Textual Waste and the Structural Patterns of Djuna Barnes’s Re-Made Modernism iii. Circulation in the Theme: Repetition, Refrain and Variation Across the Patchin Place Cycles iv. CHAPTER FOUR:Troubling Structures: Inner Time and the ‘Baroness Elsa’ Manuscript i. The Baroness’s Interruptive Poetics ii. Cutting, Stitching, Weaving: Ida-Marie’s ‘strange handiwork’iii. Alexis Carrel and Nightwood’s Troubling Structures iv. Denying the Called Response: Mothers, Daughters and The Antiphon CONCLUSION:Modernism Recovered BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX