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Book SynopsisCaroline Knighton is an Independent Scholar and writer based in London. She formerly taught and convened courses at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Table of ContentsSeries 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. Übermarionettes 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
