Mina Loy (1882-1966)
A selective list of literary criticism for the internationalist modernist poet Mina Loy, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites
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Literary Criticism
Ayers, David. "The Waste Land, Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy," in Modernism: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Preview at Google Books.
Bronstein, Hilda. "'Intermittent-Unfinishing': Mina Loy and the elusive text as resistance." Conference paper from Mina Loy: A Symposium, Univ. of London, 3/11/2000
Burke, Carolyn. Author Carolyn Burke discusses her biography of Mina Loy, Becoming Modern. In an interview in Jacket Magazine
Burke, Carolyn. Web site for Carolyn Burke's Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy with reviews
Conover, Roger L., ed. A review of Conover's Mina Loy, "The Lost Lunar Baedeker." (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996). Reviewed by Keith Tuma in Notre Dame Review, 1996; Rpt. Jacket Magazine #5
Goody, Alex. "Gender, Authority and the Speaking Subject, or: Who is Mina Loy?" [Love Songs]Conference paper from Mina Loy: A Symposium, Univ. of London, 3/11/2000
Nicholls, Peter. "'Arid clarity': Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, and Jules Laforgue." Conference paper from Mina Loy: A Symposium, Univ. of London, 3/11/2000
Perloff, Marjorie. "English as a 'Second' Language: Mina Loy's 'Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose.'" Originally in Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, ed. Keith Tuma and Maeera Schreiber; Rpt. in Jacket Magazine #5
Quartermain, Peter. On "Love Songs" / "Songs to Joannes." Also, excerpts from other major critical discussions of the Love Songs, at Modern American Poetry, Univ. of Illinois
Sheffield, Rob. "Mina Loy in Too Much Too Soon: poetry / celebrity / sexuality / modernity." "In the summer of 1915, Mina Loy was the most scandalous poet in America." Literary Review, Summer, 2003
Shreiber, Maeera and Keith Tuma, eds. Mina Loy: Woman and Poet (National Poetry Foundation, 1998). List of articles and contributors
An introduction to Mina Loy, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
About the Mina Loy papers at Yale from the Yale Beinecke Library.
A very brief introduction to Mina Loy from the Academy of American Poets.
Burke, Carolyn. Mina Loy: Reimagining the Poetic Line, in HOW(ever), Vol. 2, No. 4 (November 1985) (removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts1185.html#carolyn)
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