{"product_id":"modernist-wastes-9781350249301","title":"Modernist Wastes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Knighton\u003c\/b\u003e is an Independent Scholar and writer based in London. She formerly taught and convened courses at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries Editor Preface \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbbreviations \u003c\/i\u003e   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 \u003ci\u003eNightwood’s \u003c\/i\u003eTroubling Structures  iv.                Denying the Called Response: Mothers, Daughters and \u003ci\u003eThe Antiphon \u003c\/i\u003e   CONCLUSION: Modernism Recovered    BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084837876055,"sku":"9781350249301","price":35.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350249301.jpg?v=1762207310","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernist-wastes-9781350249301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}