Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman (Historicizing Modernism) - Softcover

Parmar, Sandeep

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472596501 ISBN 13: 9781472596505

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

Mina Loy is recognised today as one of the most innovative modernist poets, numbering Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Djuna Barnes and T.S. Eliot amongst her admirers.

Drawing on substantial new archival research, this book challenges the existing critical myth of Loy as a 'modern woman' through an analysis of her unpublished autobiographical prose. Mina Loy's Autobiographies explores this major twentieth century writer's ideas about the 'modern' and how they apply to the 'modernist' writer-based on her engagement with twentieth-century avant-garde aesthetics-and charts how Loy herself uniquely defined modernity in her essays on literature and art. Sandeep Parmar here shows how, ultimately, Loy's autobiographies extend the modernist project by rejecting earlier impressions of avant-garde futurity and newness in favour of a 'late modernist' aesthetic, one that is more pessimistic, inward and interested in the fragmentary interplay between the past and present.

About this title

Book Description:

Draws on archival research into Loy's substantial unpublished autobiographical writings to challenge traditional accounts of her relationship to modernism and feminism.

About the Author:

Sandeep Parmar is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is editor of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1472596501
• ISBN 13: 9781472596505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208