Modernist Wastes: Recovery, Re-Use and the Autobiographic in Elsa von-Freytag-Lorighoven and Djuna Barnes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350249301)

Modernist Wastesis a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collaborative auto/biographical writings of Djuna Barnes and the artist, poetic and Dada performer Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Caroline Knighton reveals how these very processes of discarding, recovery and re-use can open up new ways of understanding a distinctively female modernist artistic practice.
Illustrated throughout with artworks, original letters and manuscript facsimiles, the book draws on new archival discoveries to place the feminist recovery of neglected female voices at the heart of our understanding of modernist and avant-garde literary culture.

Author: Caroline Knighton
ISBN-10: 1350249300
ISBN-13: 9781350249301
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d