Modernist Articulations : A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein

This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, it significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism. Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein were all innovative women writers of the modernist period, and in this new study Alex Goody reappraises their work and their place in early twentieth-century culture. The book also explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies, creating new perspectives on a range of current themes in modernist studies, including technology, the marketing of modernism, the grotesque, women and the city, and Jewishness. Barnes, Loy and Stein are placed at specific modernist moments - key points of articulation - in order to explore their work and its response to modernist culture Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Modernist Studies and Cultural Studies....Pages 1-26 Becoming-Modernists: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein....Pages 27-56 The Great War, Hysterical Men and the Modernist Lyric....Pages 57-84 Dada, Cyborgs and the New Woman in New York....Pages 85-117 Fashions for Genius and the Flâneur: A Guide to Paris....Pages 118-149 Carnival Bodies, the Grotesque, and Becoming Animal....Pages 150-177 Wandering and Wondering: Jewish Identity and Minority Writing....Pages 178-206 Postscript....Pages 207-209 Back Matter....Pages 210-242