Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy by Sara Crangle ISBN 9781399524322, 9781399524339, 9781399524346, 9781399524353, 1399524321, 139952433X, 1399524348, 1399524356 instant download

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy by Sara Crangle ISBN 9781399524322, 9781399524339, 9781399524346, 9781399524353, 1399524321, 139952433X, 1399524348, 1399524356 instant download

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy is the first book-length study devoted to Loy’s affinities with alternative spiritualities ancient and modern. Aligning Loy’s heterodoxies with her vanguardism, this volume analyses Loy’s engagements with mesmerism, spiritualism, and telepathy; enchantment and visionariness; psychoanalysis, philosophy, and physics; Christian Science and Theosophy.

Attending to Loy’s presentations of the upper half of the body – heartscapes, spines, eyes, nerve centres – Elevated Realms unearths the coordinates of Loy’s esoteric Eros, a transcendent, orgasmic love that is cosmic, aesthetic, and a corrective to women’s disregarded satiation. The counterpart to her acerbic feminist satires, Loy’s Eros transforms abjectified, feminised posturing. Always singular, Loy’s embodied mysticism remains a potent model for the study of feminist spirituality in the modernist period and beyond.