Description: This book provides an intertextual and intermedial analysis of the work of modernist writer and cross-media artist Mina Loy. It emphasizes her complex strategies of collage, condensation, distortion, and displacement, as well as the importance of her perpetual travel between disparate aesthetics, which becomes a means to critically engage with the turbulence of avant-garde innovation of her time, pinpointing the essential ephemerality of the avant-gardes.
Brief description:
Yasna Bozhkova is Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research focuses on intertextual, intermedial and intercultural poetics from transatlantic modernism to the present. Her first monograph, titled Between Worlds: Mina Loy's Aesthetic Itineraries, was published in 2022 by Clemson University Press. She is also the co-editor of several special issues, including "African American Voices from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present: Establishing/Abolishing Authority" (French Review of American Studies) and "'The Contour of an Electric Spirit' Revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century" (Feminist Modernist Studies). She has published articles and book chapters on modernist and contemporary poetry and fiction, as well as avant-garde experimentation across the arts. She is a board member of the Société d'études modernistes and of the MSA.
Review Quotes:
'This monograph's strength is that it embraces a vast array of sources to draw creative connections that pay homage to Loy's own predilection for plurality and irreducibility. Its ample use of visual references, beyond just the usual intertextual ones, is particularly valuable for analyzing Loy, whose artistically trained eye lent special importance to such... Between Worlds is such an expansive offering that readers both familiar and unfamiliar with Loy will find it a beneficial and thought-provoking read.' Jennifer Ashby, Modernism/modernity