Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
This article focuses on the emergence of a poetics of cross-cultural observation in the work of Mina Loy. It explores how this transnational poetics evolves in her poems, essays, and manifestoes, while also confronting it with the question of Loy’s “American” identity. It suggests that many of Loy’s...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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E-rea
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | This article focuses on the emergence of a poetics of cross-cultural observation in the work of Mina Loy. It explores how this transnational poetics evolves in her poems, essays, and manifestoes, while also confronting it with the question of Loy’s “American” identity. It suggests that many of Loy’s writings are ironically positioned as a Baedeker guide to cross-cultural differences as well as to the transnational artistic phenomena of her times. |
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