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Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Nethered Regions An Anatomy of Mina Loy develops new thinking on Loy's representations of the foundations of existence, exploring topics that include sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice and satire, demonstrating how Loy devises an original feminist satirical mode by which sardonic aggression is aimed at generating intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance. Loy's articulations of 'low' body parts feet, legs, genitals, bellies and wombs are explored in chapters that theorise her deployment of 'dissident' sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women's pleasure) and censorship; pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse that is unsung counterpart to the poete maudit.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface. "Of the Cuttings a Garden of Ecstasy": Anatomising Mina Loy
Part I
Introduction. "About to be a Body": Loy's Corporeality
1. Loy's Atavistic Avant-Gardism
"Being Alive": Sentience
"Primeval Recognitions": Primitivism
"Trailing the Rest of the Animal Behind": Evolution
"Cosmic Force": Vitalism
2. Bodies Sacrificial & Intimate
"Passional Compromise": Modernist Sentimental Economies
"Surplus Potency": Sacrifice
"The Instigatory Caress": Satire and Intimacy
"Transpierced Parts" and "Salvation": Crucifixions
"'Inordinate Chastity'": Virgins
Part II
3. Feet, Legs, Genitals: The Pornographies of Loy's Punctuation
*: Queer Pleasures, Women's Pleasure
The Unsentimental Economy of Prostitution
Feminist Pornographies
The Traffic in Men: Punctuating the Sacred Gigolo
Collapsing, Soaring: Transcendent Fallenness
Derouted Soles, Phraseless Parentheses: Feet and Legs
•, - - -: Puncta and Desire Lines
4. "Upon Bossed Bellies": Loy & the Accursed Muse
The Accursed Poet
The Accursed Muse
Voicing Damnation: Loy's Muses
The Stomach
Bibliography
Index
