Mina Loy's critical modernism / Laura Scuriatti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scuriatti, Laura, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loy, Mina--Criticism and interpretation.

Loy, Mina.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 302 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2019]

Summary:

This volume argues that Loy's corpus of works produces a kind of "critical" modernism: the author makes the case that Loy's corpus exhibits a skeptical, detached attitude towards its own simultaneous celebration and criticism of modernist aesthetic paradigms. The author provides a new, in-depth investigation of specific aspects of the Florentine and Italian context in particular, which have so far been neglected by scholarship. The volume presents new insights into Loy's feminism and argues that her texts respond to the rewriting of Otto Weininger's then widely influential theories in the magazine Lacerba. It shows that Loy's texts present dialogic, "narratable", "eccentric" selves and subjectivities, which create uncomfortable critical spaces within modernism as a broad movement.

Contents:

Introduction

Loy's dialogue with Lacerba and Italian feminism

The objects of poetry and the economics of art

Mina Loy's dialogic and "narratable" selves: art as collaboration

Eccentricity, affiliation, and distance in Loy's corpus

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813056302

0813056306

OCLC:

1048658915