Elevated realms : an anatomy of Mina Loy / Sara Crangle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crangle, Sara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loy, Mina--Criticism and interpretation.

Loy, Mina.

Human body in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 266 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. 'Elevated Realms' is a book-length study devoted to Loy's affinities with alternative spiritualities ancient and modern. Aligning Loy's heterodoxies with her vanguardism, this volume considers Loy's engagements with mesmerism, spiritualism and telepathy; enchantment and visionariness; psychoanalysis, philosophy and physics; Christian science and theosophy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface. “[T]hat uncircumscribed entity, an Infinitarian”: Loy the Esotericist

Part I

1. Hearts Absented and Newborn: Loy’s Esoteric Eros

Part II

Introduction Backs, Nerves, Eyes: From Proneness to Visionary Transcendence

Chapter 2 “The Supine Event”

Chapter 3 The Blind Back

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 18, 2026).

ISBN:

1-3995-2434-8