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

255 Pages·2007·1.38 MB·English

by  Alex Goody (auth.)

Modernist Articulations
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Modernist Articulations
A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes,
Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein
Alex Goody
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1. Americanliterature“20thcentury“Historyandcriticism.
2. Modernism(Literature)“UnitedStates. 3. Barnes,Djuna“
Criticismandinterpretation. 4. Loy,Mina“Criticismand
interpretation. 5. Stein,Gertrude,1874(cid:3)1946“Criticismand
interpretation. 6. Americanliterature“Womenauthors“History
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To my father, Peter Goody
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And to Jasmine
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xii
Introduction:ModernistStudiesandCulturalStudies 1
Moderniststudies? 4
Culturalstudies? 9
Articulations 13
Culture,desireandthereal 15
Literarymachines 21
1 Becoming-Modernists: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and
GertrudeStein 27
Becoming,modernism 27
Barnes,themiddleclassandtheOedipalfamily 33
Intension,extensionandLoy’sfeministeffects 41
Stein’smaking:progressiveverbs,dynamicsubjects 48
2 TheGreatWar,HystericalMenandtheModernistLyric 57
TheGreatWarandmoderniststudies 58
Hystericalmen 63
DeathoftheliteraryI 68
Loveandletters:LoyandSteinwritewar 75
3 Dada,CyborgsandtheNewWomaninNewYork 85
Spectacular,spectacular:BarneswritesNewYork 88
Themodernwoman 95
Loy,blindmenandmechanomorphicwomen 99
Cyborg-womenmakingDada 110
4 FashionsforGeniusandtheFlâneur:AGuidetoParis 118
Modernism,urbanismandgenius 119
Stunningsubjects 125
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‘PabloandMatissehaveamalenessthatbelongstogenius,
Moiaussiperhaps’ 132
Curieofthelaboratoryofvocabulary 136
Portraitsoftheartist 140
Outofthecity 146
5 CarnivalBodies,theGrotesque,andBecomingAnimal 150
Becoming-grotesqueandgrotesquemodernism 151
Bodies,buttonsandcows:GertrudeStein 157
Fromrepulsivewomentobecoming-animal:DjunaBarnes 164
Urbandetritusandtheabject:MinaLoy 173
6 WanderingandWondering:JewishIdentityandMinority
Writing 178
TheJewinthemodernist(con)text 179
JewishmodernismandmodernistJews 183
‘TheJew’shistoryacommodity’:Barnes,Nightwoodand
theJew 188
Anglo-mongrelmodernism:LoyandthewonderingJew 192
Yiddish,Zionismandpatriarchy:Stein’sJewishness 199
Postscript 207
Notes 210
Bibliography 219
Index 233
Figures
1 MarcelDuchamp,Fountain,1917;photographbyAlfred
Steiglietz.©SuccessionMarcelDuchamp/ADAGPParisand
DACSLondon,2006.PhotographcourtesyofBeineckeRare
BookandManuscriptLibrary,Yale 100
2 FrancisPicabia,Fillenéesansmère(GirlBornWithouta
Mother) (pen and ink on paper) 1915. Alfred Stieglitz
Collection,MetropolitanMuseumofArt;©ADAGPParis
andDACSLondon,2006 106
3 FrancisPicabia,Portraitd’unejeunefilleaméricainedansl’etat
denudité(PortraitofaYoungAmericanGirlintheStateof
Nudity),fromJuly–August1915issueof291;©ADAGP
ParisandDACSLondon,2006 107
4 August 15 1915 issue of Rogue (2:1) pages 10 and 11,
showingMinaLoy’s‘VirginsPlusCurtainsMinusDots’,©
Mina Loy Estate, and Clara Tice’s Virgin Minus Verse.
PhotographcourtesyofBeineckeRareBookandManuscript
Library,Yale 109
5 MinaLoyandDjunaBarnesphotographedbyManRay
c.1920, Sylvia Beach Collection, Princeton University
Library.©ManRayTrust/ADAGPParisandDACSLondon,
2006 129
6 Jo Davidson, Gertrude Stein (bronze), 1920, Whitney
MuseumofAmericanArt©DACSLondon,2006 131
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