Nethered Regions an Anatomy of Mina Loy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Nethered Regions An Anatomy of Mina Loy develops new thinking on Loy's representations of the foundations of existence, exploring topics that include sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice and satire, demonstrating how Loy devises an original feminist satirical mode by which sardonic aggression is aimed at generating intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance. Loy's articulations of 'low' body parts feet, legs, genitals, bellies and wombs are explored in chapters that theorise her deployment of 'dissident' sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women's pleasure) and censorship; pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse that is unsung counterpart to the poete maudit.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-30
Mått156 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt774 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748689385

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Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial.Her books include I’m Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (Shearsman Books, 2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, Bloomsbury, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey Archive, 2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).With the support of a 2023-24 Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, she is researching and editing Anna Mendelssohn’s roman à clef, What a Performance. Her critical edition of Mendelssohn’s poetry received award recognition from the Society for Textual Scholarship in 2021.

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPreface. "Of the Cuttings a Garden of Ecstasy": Anatomising Mina LoyPart IIntroduction. "About to be a Body": Loy’s Corporeality1. Loy’s Atavistic Avant-Gardism“Being Alive”: Sentience“Primeval Recognitions”: Primitivism“Trailing the Rest of the Animal Behind”: Evolution“Cosmic Force”: Vitalism2. Bodies Sacrificial & Intimate“Passional Compromise”: Modernist Sentimental Economies“Surplus Potency”: Sacrifice“The Instigatory Caress”: Satire and Intimacy“Transpierced Parts” and “Salvation”: Crucifixions“‘Inordinate Chastity’”: VirginsPart II3. Feet, Legs, Genitals: The Pornographies of Loy’s Punctuation*: Queer Pleasures, Women’s PleasureThe Unsentimental Economy of ProstitutionFeminist PornographiesThe Traffic in Men: Punctuating the Sacred GigoloCollapsing, Soaring: Transcendent FallennessDerouted Soles, Phraseless Parentheses: Feet and Legs•, – – –: Puncta and Desire Lines4. "Upon Bossed Bellies": Loy & the Accursed MuseThe Accursed PoetThe Accursed MuseVoicing Damnation: Loy’s MusesThe StomachBibliographyIndex