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

List of contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements

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

Bibliography
Index

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Linda A. Kinnahan, Linda (Duquesne University A. Kinnahan, Linda A. Kinnahan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367884475
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88447-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Photography & photographs, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Photography and photographs