Prof. Dr. Laura Scuriatti publishes chapter "Mina Loy's Interrupted Communities" in the open access volume Rethinking Lyric Communities

Prof. Dr. Laura Scuriatti has published a chapter titled "Mina Loy's Interrupted Communities" in the volume Rethinking Lyric Communities, which she has also co-edited with Irene Fantappiè and Francesco Giusti. Published by ICI Press, the publication is available open access.

The volume asks the question, “How does lyric poetry address or even create communities — and of what kinds?” Taking a global perspective, it investigates poetic communities in dialogue with recent developments in lyric theory and concepts of community, exploring the political potentialities of lyric poetry.

Scuriatti’s chapter explores the different types of communities produced in Mina Loy’s works, with a focus on her theorization of modernist poetry in the essays “Modern Poetry” (1925) and “Gertrude Stein” (1927), the pamphlet “Psycho-Democracy,” the poem “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” (1923–25), and the sequence “Italian Pictures” (1914). Through the investigation of Loy’s multilingualism, poetics, and style, Scuriatti argues that “the insistence on the ephemeral, precarious, and shifting temporality of textual communities is the result not only of Loy’s presence within mobile, transnational expatriate groups but also of a feminist stance that refuses participation in patriarchal or oppressive forms of togetherness, aiming instead to imagine possible alternatives.”

The full volume Rethinking Lyric Communities is available open access through ICI Press here.

Post Date: 11-14-2024