[close] 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. These three writers are placed at specific modernist moments--key points of articulation--in order to explore their work and its response to the culture around it. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, Modernist Articulations significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism. [close]