Songs of Love and Loss: Mina Loy's Lyric Theodicy
This article proposes that the function of a "weak theodicy" is embedded in Mina Loy's lyric praxis. In critically extending theories of the lyric voice in relation to the dialogic address of the I-Thou fold as formulated by Martin Buber, I consider how Loy's lyric poetry respond...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Religion & literature
Year: 2023, Volume: 55, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 95-119 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Loy, Mina 1882-1966
/ Poetry
/ Love
/ Loss
/ Theodicy
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | This article proposes that the function of a "weak theodicy" is embedded in Mina Loy's lyric praxis. In critically extending theories of the lyric voice in relation to the dialogic address of the I-Thou fold as formulated by Martin Buber, I consider how Loy's lyric poetry responds to the losses of history. The I-Thou relation set up as an event in the lyric address refers the loves terminated in historical time to an eternal witness, picking up the thread of interrupted love in the poem itself. By interpreting Loy's explicit and implicit references to divine presence in the event of love, I extend her reputed "logopoeia" into a theopoetic undertaking that recovers love once more out of love's expiration, initiating thereby a renewed investment in the future. Loy's lyric praxis is understood to set up a relational ontology whose players are engaged in an incarnational dance referred to as a "lyric/of bodies." I conclude by reading the promise of love's renewal in these lyric exchanges alongside accounts of process theology, developing a form of "weak theodicy" out of the "weak God" of anatheism. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2024.a948406 |
