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Modernist Women Poets:
Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker
SPRING 2005 / SUSAN TICHY / THURSDAYS 7:20-10:00 / EAST BUILDING 134
Mina
Loy: weeks 6-9
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week 9: English as a Second Language
We will end our discussion of Loy with a concentrated appraisal of her diction and its implications. The premise for this week’s readings can be summed up by this, from Marisa Januzzi: “Ultimately, Loy’s most accomplished work is avant-garde precisely because the diction is a vehicle by means of which the idea of authorial intention, along with traditional notions of “sense,” and (literary) integrity, are subject to question.” Also interesting is a comparison of Loy’s diction to Freudian analysis (at least as it appears in the popular imagination): a combination or alteration of associative imagery with analysis. For our reading, we'll focus on "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose."
REQUIRED READING:
Reading Packet from the book store:
Loy: Excerpts from "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose."
Our discussion will
probably focus on the first three sections: Exodus, English Rose, &
Mongrel Rose
Loy: International Psycho-Democracy
Lost Lunar Baedeker:
III: Corpses & Geniuses (Poems 1919-1930):
Please read or
reread: Apology of Genius, Lunar Baedeker, The Widow’s Jazz, Der Blinde
Junge, Lady Laura in Bohemia
V: Excavations & Precisions (Prose 1914-1925):
Modern Poetry
Reading at the JC Reserve Desk:
Elizabeth Frost. "Mina Loy's 'Mongrel Poetics'." MLWP
Marjorie Perloff. "English as a Second Language." MLWP. This essay is also available on line from Jacket Magazine:
RECOMMENDED READING:
1915: The Cultural Moment:
Review
“The New Psychology,” especially “Splitting and Reducing
the Soul,” p 118.
