scholarly journals Against “the Censor’s Scythe”: Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Miranda ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasna Bozhkova
Keyword(s):  
Djuna Barnes ◽  
Mina Loy

Loy, Mina (1882–1966)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beulah Maud Devaney
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
Djuna Barnes ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Mina Loy ◽  
Graphic Artist

Mina Loy, born Mina Gertrude Lowry, (1882–1966), was a British artist, designer, model, novelist, nurse, playwright and poet, with ties to the Dadaist, Futurist and Surrealist moments. Loy was one of the first generation modernists and was close friends with many leaders of the movement including Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams. Her poetry was published in The Little Review and championed by Left Bank publisher Robert McAlmon. Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, the eldest daughter of Sigmund and Julia Bryant Lowry. In 1899, at the age of seventeen, Loy left school and moved to Munich to study art with the painter and graphic artist Angelo Jank. Jank, a member of the Munich Secession, introduced Loy to the work of newly emerging European thinkers, including Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Modernist Dante

2021 ◽  
pp. 633-650
Author(s):  
Daniela Caselli
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
James Joyce ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
First Century ◽  
Djuna Barnes ◽  
Dorothy Richardson ◽  
Anglophone Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

This chapter traces a history of Dante’s reception in anglophone literature between the 1870s and the 1950s. It acknowledges his importance in Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce, but engages more closely with Samuel Beckett, Djuna Barnes, and Virginia Woolf. It shows that the modernist Dante that emerges from these authors’ work is both a formal and political one: recruited as an anti-authoritarian voice from the past and seen anew from feminist and queer perspectives, this is not a twenty-first century Dante forced against his will to virtue-signal, however; on the contrary, this is a Dante anachronistically familiar with key ‘vices’ of twentieth-century authors, readers and commentators. Focusing on sullenness, resistance, and fatigue, the chapter argues for a new understanding of modernist experiments with Dante’s political and formal complexity that refuse to use him as a ‘code or a weapon […] to crush someone’, as Dorothy Richardson put it.

Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric B. White
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Mina Loy ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Technological Sublime

Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown’s ‘reading machine’ and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett, Ralph Ellison and Langston Hughes, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change. Reading Machines argues that transatlantic avant-gardes deployed ‘techno-bathetic’ strategies to contest the dominance of the technological sublime. This major but hidden cultural narrative engaged with the messy particulars and unintended consequences of technology’s transduction in society. Techno-bathetic vanguardists including Futurists, Vorticists, Dadaists, post-Harlem Renaissance radicals and American Super-realists proposed new, non-servile ways of reading and doing technology. The books reveals how these formations contested the entrenched hierarchies of both the transatlantic Machine Age and technological sublime.

scholarly journals A escritura de Mina Loy entre as figurações do feminino na virada do século

2017 ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Lucas Bento Pugliesi
Keyword(s):  
Mina Loy ◽  
Otto Weininger

O presente artigo tratará das ambivalências do pensamento de Mina Loy, conforme apresentado em seus poemas e no Manifesto Feminista, em vias de situá-lo como resposta à psicologia europeia da virada do século XIX para o XX, em especial às concepções do feminino de Otto Weininger. Deste modo, pretende-se entender como a forma poética já carrega em si algo de uma invectiva contra o modo, masculino (DERRIDA, 1993), de valorizar o saber que Loy pretende destruir em prol de afirmações positivas de uma identidade feminina. 

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