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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unpublished autobiographical prose.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.
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Faust (Paperback)
Sandeep Parmar
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Goethe's version of the scholar's fateful wager with Mephistopheles
inspires the central sequence of Faust, mapped onto the figure of
the migrant who flees a post-colonial legacy of fire, displacement
and climate destruction for a life of eternal striving. As Parmar
asks in 'The Winnowing Shovel': 'How is striving itself, as an idea
built into literary models and real-life stereotypes of the good
immigrant or the model minority, how might striving-in the Faustian
sense-provide a way of thinking about heroism, tragedy (modern and
ancient) and migratory grief? Who chooses to leave and why, who
attempts to return, who stays on, who, to borrow from Bhanu Kapil's
image of reverse migration, is made psychotic in a national space,
who is this hero who journeys, who strives and for what? To be
visible or invisible? As others have looked to the Faust legend for
ways to explore the insatiability of man's appetites, the questions
I put to Goethe's version specifically bring together three
strands: striving as a fear of and countermeasure against
mortality; a critique of globalisation and technology; and the
female element underlying male aggression, destruction and desire.'
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. Reading 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.
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Eidolon (Paperback)
Sandeep Parmar
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R417
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Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on
the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from
classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image,
a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex
machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically
Helen's supposed deceit and infidelity. The Eidolon, as a device,
is something beauteous and beguiling - as a thing, or as a
preoccupation, it is the siren song to the poet who listens for
silence. Who gives Helen her voice and what need unites it into a
single, constant loathsome creature? Helen is as much the city of
Troy as its famed plains and high walls. It might as well be Helen
smouldering on the great pyre of defeat, even though she escapes
unscathed in Homer's Odyssey and is restored to her husband's side
by the eidolon's unique guarantee of her chastity.
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham in 1979 and was raised in
Southern California. She received her PhD in English Literature
from University College London in 2008 on the unpublished
autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She holds an MA in
Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is the
Reviews Editor of The Wolf magazine and edited The Collected Poems
of Hope Mirrlees for Carcanet Press (2011). She has taught
Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire,
the Open University, University of Cambridge, Wagner College and
was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality at New York University. In 2011 - 2012, she is a Visiting
Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
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The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Paperback)
Rachel Potter; Edited by (associates) Suzanne Hobson; Contributions by Tim Armstrong, David Ayers, Geoff Gilbert, …
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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.
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