Yasna Bozhkova

Bio

Yasna Bozhkova is Associate Professor of American Literature at Paris Nanterre University, France. She is the author of Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries (Clemson UP, 2022). She has also published articles and book chapters on modernist and contemporary poetry and fiction, as well as on avant-garde experimentation across the arts. She is International Relations Chair of the MSA.

Contributions

Virgin Dolls, Ancient Tombs, and Modern Eyes: Hope Mirrlees and Mina Loy Writing Paris

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Intertextual readings of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem have related it to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Zone,” and Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard. Oliver Tearle’s recent study underscores the degree to which Paris anticipates The Waste Land, suggesting that “[i]f we did not know better, we would place Mirrlees’s poem later than Eliot’s, identifying it as one of a number of [its] imitations”; as he shows, Mirrlees came up with many similar...

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