1st Edition
Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets
By Linda A. Kinnahan
Copyright 2017
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets , Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loy’s late modernist poetics in relation to photography’s ascendance, by the mid-twentieth century, as a distinctively modern force shaping representation and perception. As photography develops over the course of the century as an art form, social tool, and cultural force,... Read more
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
Biography
Linda A. Kinnahan is Professor of English at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.
