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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction: Modernist Studies and Cultural Studies......Page 14
Modernist studies?......Page 17
Cultural studies?......Page 22
Articulations......Page 26
Culture, desire and the real......Page 28
Literary machines......Page 34
Becoming, modernism......Page 40
Barnes, the middle class and the Oedipal family......Page 46
Intension, extension and Loy’s feminist effects......Page 54
Stein’s making: progressive verbs, dynamic subjects......Page 61
2 The Great War, Hysterical Men and the Modernist Lyric......Page 70
The Great War and modernist studies......Page 71
Hysterical men......Page 76
Death of the literary I......Page 81
Love and letters: Loy and Stein write war......Page 88
3 Dada, Cyborgs and the New Woman in New York......Page 98
Spectacular, spectacular: Barnes writes New York......Page 101
The modern woman......Page 108
Loy, blind men and mechanomorphic women......Page 112
Cyborg-women making Dada......Page 123
4 Fashions for Genius and the Flâneur: A Guide to Paris......Page 131
Modernism, urbanism and genius......Page 132
Stunning subjects......Page 138
‘Pablo and Matisse have a maleness that belongs to genius, Moi aussi perhaps’......Page 145
Curie of the laboratory of vocabulary......Page 149
Portraits of the artist......Page 153
Out of the city......Page 159
5 Carnival Bodies, the Grotesque, and Becoming Animal......Page 163
Becoming-grotesque and grotesque modernism......Page 164
Bodies, buttons and cows: Gertrude Stein......Page 170
From repulsive women to becoming-animal: Djuna Barnes......Page 177
Urban detritus and the abject: Mina Loy......Page 186
6 Wandering and Wondering: Jewish Identity and Minority Writing......Page 191
The Jew in the modernist (con)text......Page 192
Jewish modernism and modernist Jews......Page 196
‘The Jew’s history a commodity’: Barnes, Nightwood and the Jew......Page 201
Anglo-mongrel modernism: Loy and the wondering Jew......Page 205
Yiddish, Zionism and patriarchy: Stein’s Jewishness......Page 212
Postscript......Page 220
Notes......Page 223
Bibliography......Page 232
Index......Page 246