Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets

ISBN-13: 9780367884475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Linda A. Kinnahan

Opis

In Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets, Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loy’s late modernist poetics in relationship to photography’s ascendance, by the mid-twentieth century, as a distinctively modern force shaping representation and perception. As photography develops over the c

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Introduction

1 Loy among the photographers: poetry, perception, and the camera

2 Surrealism and the female body: economies of violence

3 Portraits of the poor: the Bowery poems and the rise of documentary photography

4 From patriotism to atrocity: the war poems and photojournalism

5 Gendering the camera: Kathleen Fraser and Caroline Bergvall

 

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O autorze

Linda A. Kinnahan is Professor of English at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.