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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Main Author: Yasna BOZHKOVA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2019-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/7368
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Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
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title Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
title_full Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
title_fullStr Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
title_full_unstemmed Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
title_short Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism
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topic Modernism
avant-garde
Mina Loy
transnationalism
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