228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Victoria Bazin examines the poetry of Marianne Moore as it is shaped by and responsive to the experience of being a modern woman, of living in the aftermath of the First World War, of being interpellated as a modern consumer and of writing in "the age of mechanical reproduction." She argues that Moore's textual collages and syllabic sculptures are based on the cultural clutter or debris of... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Modernity, poetry and pragmatism; Critical constructions of 'Miss Moore': the poetics of purity; Instruments of dissection: syllabic verse in the age of mechanical destruction; 'Just looking': the aesthetics of display; 'A hybrid method of composition': montage and flexible forms of faith; 'Technical mastery' and imperial power: cultivating a poetic wilderness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Victoria Bazin is a senior lecturer at the Northumbria University, UK
'Victoria Bazin brings an important new perspective to Moore studies by positioning her dialectically in relation to pragmatism, Walter Benjamin's theories of consumerism and history, and the contradictions of modernity for women, demonstrating that Moore connects poetry to the mundane and habitual while engaging in nuanced feminist analysis of her peer poets and philosophers and of newly emerging mass consumerism. This is a book every student and scholar of Moore will want to read.' Cristanne Miller, Edward H. Butler Professor of English.University of Buffalo, USA '... this is an invaluable study of Moore’s poetry and Bazin sets a new agenda for thinking about the writer and her work.' Literature and History
