3. Protean Form: Erotic Abstraction and Ardent Futurity in the Poetry of Mina Loy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Reformulating Modernism 1
6. 1. Plastic Form: Henry James’s Sculptural Aesthetics and Reading in the Round 18
7. 2. Mortal Form: Still Life and Virginia Woolf ’s Other Elegiac Shapes 53
8. 3. Protean Form: Erotic Abstraction and Ardent Futurity in the Poetry of Mina Loy 93
9. 4. Bad Formalism: Evelyn Waugh’s Film Fictions and the Work of Art in the Age of Cinemechanics 135
10. 5. Surface Forms: Photography and Gertrude Stein’s Contact History of Modernism 178
11. Epilogue: The Consolations of Form 226
12. Notes 231
13. Bibliography 287
14. Index 305