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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mina Loy"”.
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"Ostracized as we are with God": Mina Loy's Anti-career and the Search for Originality
<p>Among many modernist artists, Mina Loy remains one of the most complex and allusive. Recent posthumous exposure of Loy's life and work adds to this precarity. A significant piece of Loy's life that is especially complex to contemporaries is her time spent writing. By establishing Loy's …
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Metacognitive poetics: Modernist reflections on the performance of thinking
… the ways in which female poets Sara Teasdale and Mina Loy dramatize human cognition as an embodied experience and, consequently, help subvert the oppressive legacy of Cartesian dualism. Chapter four returns to Stevens, and pairs his work with T.S. Eliot, to examine the way silence shapes their …
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The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
… writers (W.B. Yeats, May Sinclair, James Joyce, Mina Loy) endeavor to produce a realignment of self and body that is expansive and joyful, though always in relation to intense negative affect. Bodies and feelings are highly contested and gendered domains, and in theorizing joy I foreground the …
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Prior Commitments: Multiply Affiliated Women Writers and Modernism's Shifting Boundaries
… strategies in the work of three women writers---Mina Loy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dorothy Parker---in ways that shed light on modernism's vexed but at times productive relationship with mass culture. Negotiating various avant-garde, traditional, and mass cultural affiliations, Loy, Millay, …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… British modernist poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic experimentation were reciprocal …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers early-twentieth-century writers a new lexicon for describing and …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers early-twentieth-century writers a new lexicon for describing and …
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"The Bellows / of Experience": The Modernist Love Poem and Its Legacy
… extending from the earliest written poems and culminating in nineteenth-century sentimentality—as well as explicit erotic content, satire, polemic, violence, and anxiety. It is not neatly bounded by nation, gender, race, or aesthetic approach, but nonetheless, this project examines the consistent …
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… Pater, Michael Field, H.D., D. H. Lawrence, and Mina Loy work to capture the opaque impersonality of the subject---to represent impersonality as the very condition of personality---without indulging in an Eliotic dream of escape from the body, the ego, or socially-mediated identity categories …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors and artists seek “otherworlds” to revitalize their lives and art but how their conceptualizations of and attempts to reach such places depend on asymmetrical and extractive relationships to colonial …
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
… the work of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Mina Loy, this thesis argues that late nineteenth-century decorative art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist artists and critics actively disavowed any decorative influence, I argue that a …
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The Politics of Intermediality: Late Modernist Circulations of the Event
… a range of cultural and historical contexts. Employing eventalization, my research illuminates intersections of media, gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Some of the artists I engage with include Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Langston Hughes, Jacob …
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I Was Not Born
… PhD is early modernist female writers, such as Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore. My dissertation returns to these women, as well as to more contemporary experimental poets such as Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Lyn Hejinian.<em> I Was Not Born</em>is grounded in dialogue with …