Modernist wastes : recovery, re-use and the autobiographic in Elsa von-Freytag-Lorighoven and Djuna Barnes / Caroline Knighton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knighton, Caroline, author.

Series:

Historicizing modernism.

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnes, Djuna 1892-1982--Criticism and interpretation.

Barnes, Djuna.

Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927--Criticism and interpretation.

Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von.

Modernism (Literature).

Women authors--Biography--History and criticism.

Women authors.

Women poets--Biography--History and criticism.

Women poets.

Women artists--Biography--History and criticism.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 296 pages : illustrations)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Series Editor Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 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-Loringhoven

ii. Gods, Mutts and Readymades: 'America's Comfort - Sanitation!'

iii. Calculated Containment: New Women and New York Dada's Mecanamorphic Portaits iv.

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. ŠUbermarionettes and Living Statues

CHAPTER THREE: 'Not Dead': Djuna Barnes's Mature Auto/biographic Poetics

i. 'This Generation's Vulgarity': Djuna Barnes and the Biographic Impulse

ii. 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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350129054

1350129054

9781350129030

1350129038

OCLC:

1157087321