"Compensations of poverty" : la féerie urbaine ou la modernité en question dans "On Third Avenue" et "Ephemerid" de Mina Loy

This paper explores the poetics of metamorphosis in "On Third Avenue" and "Ephemerid" by Mina Loy. Her ambivalent response to modernity comes to the fore in the representation of an urban fairyland influenced by the works of Baudelaire, surrealist writers as well as the box const...

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Main Author: Laure De Nervaux-Gavoty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2009-12-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/1528