Futurism, Henri Bergson and Mina Loy’s Female Consciousness

Tan Yujie

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Futurism, Henri Bergson and Mina Loy’s Female Consciousness

Tan Yujie

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This paper is concerned with Mina Loy’s female consciousness in her poetry between the year of 1914 and 1920. The first two parts separately discuss how Futurism and Henri Bergson influence Loy. The two influences are concentrated on two different aspects of poems—form and content. Moreover, this paper also finds that the concept of intuition connects Futurism to Henri Bergson in a successive way but inconsistent at the same time. The third part attempts to reveal the controversial points in Loy’s female consciousness. The three parts as a unity tend to picture Loy’s feminist project.

Published in	Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20160402.15
Page(s)	46-52
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Futurism, Henri Bergson, Mina Loy, Poetry, Female Consciousness

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