Finding “Only Words” Mysterious

Miller, Char; Bendixen, Alfred; Burt, Stephen

doi:10.1017/cho9780511762284.030

The Cambridge History of American Poetry 2014

DOI: 10.1017/cho9780511762284.030

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Finding “Only Words” Mysterious

Char Miller¹,

Alfred Bendixen²,

Stephen Burt³

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The Materialisation of “torrential languages” within the Avant-Garde: Mina Loy, James Joyce, and Aesthetic Modernism

Wang

2022

Prague Journal of English Studies

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Modernist literature was obsessed with a metaphysical problem regarding the word. A series of formal and material experiments started to address the word’s self-referentiality and aesthetic autonomy, against the backdrop of a new sociocultural milieu in the early twentieth century. To discover how this materialisation of language explored the interplay of literary and artistic modernisms, this paper will critically scrutinise Mina Loy’s and James Joyce’s radical reforms of writing and try to answer the following questions: how did Loy’s multifarious artisthood and poem-writing exchange, interact with, and reinforce each other? As both were closely associated with avant-garde art movements between Europe and America, how did Joyce influence Loy’s refashioning of “torrential languages” (LoLB 88) as a creative model of linguistic experimentation? How did their visual aesthetics and experimental poetics help to declare the independence of language and the shape of aesthetic modernism in a new historical epoch?

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The Materialisation of “torrential languages” within the Avant-Garde: Mina Loy, James Joyce, and Aesthetic Modernism

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2022

Prague Journal of English Studies

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Finding “Only Words” Mysterious

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