The Salt Companion to Mina Loy - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1876857722 ISBN 13 : 9781876857721

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy comprises ten essays by leading scholars and writers on the work of modernist poet Mina Loy.

Loy (1882-1966) formed part of the new generation of poets who revolutionised writing in the early twentieth century. She had personal and artistic links to Italian Futurism and Parisian Surrealism, as well as to individuals such as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. Working with reference to, but also often against the ideas of these fellow writers, her experimental, witty and inconoclastic poems were both distinctive and arresting.

Since the republication of her poems in 1996-7, Loy has gained in stature and importance both in the UK and the US: her writing is now seen as central to literary innovations in the 1910s and 1920s, and she is often a set author on undergraduate and MA courses. Apart from the collection of essays Mina Loy: Woman and Poet published twelve years ago, there is currently no single book on Loy’s work in print. The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked.

The contributors include influential and emerging experts in modernist studies. They are Peter Nicholls, Tim Armstrong, Geoff Gilbert, David Ayers, Andrew Robertson, John Wilkinson, Suzanne Hobson, Rachel Potter, Alan Marshall, Rowan Harris and Sandeep Parmar.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture, 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2005), and essays on a range of modernist writers. She is currently working on a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940 and an Introductory Guide to Modernism for Edinburgh University Press.

Suzanne Hobson is a Lecturer in twentieth-century literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She has published articles on modernism and religion in Literature and Theology (2008) and Literature Compass (2007) and is currently completing a book titled Modernism, Secularism and Literary Culture: The New Angel.

Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications include Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000) and Modernism: A Cultural History (2005). He is currently working on a study of the conceptual ramifications of slavery.

David Ayers is Professor of Modernism and Critical Theory at the University of Kent. His publications include Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (1992), English Literature of the 1920s (1999), Modernism (2004) and Literary Theory: A Reintroduction (2008). He is currently working on a project concerning the cultural impact of the Russian Revolution in Britain.

Geoff Gilbert is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, where he also directs the MA in Cultural Translation. He writes on literary modernism in Before Modernism Was (2005), Scots writing, and sexuality, and is currently working on ‘contemporary realism’ and its agon with contemporary economics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1876857722
• ISBN 13: 9781876857721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Potter Rachel
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