Download PDF by Taffy Martin: Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist

By Taffy Martin

ISBN-10: 0292741359

ISBN-13: 9780292741355

Myth and false impression have obstructed a transparent realizing of the poetry and individual of Marianne Moore. during this groundbreaking research, Taffy Martin delves underneath the layers of delusion and recaptures the thrill that Moore's contemporaries, fairly William Carlos Williams, felt after they encountered her poetry. She unearths that, faraway from being a stanch upholder of Modernist order and stasis, Moore consistently undermines the soundness of her personal medium, language. not like the writings of alternative Modernist poets, comparable to T. S. Eliot, who attempted to create islands of order within the seas of twentieth-century fragmentation, Moore's paintings exhibits fantastic know-how of that fragmentation. during this manner, she anticipates the thematic preoccupation of Postmodernist writers and critics.

In Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist, Taffy Martin combines conventional scholarship and modern severe idea to create a feminist interpreting of 1 of the 20 th century's so much tricky poets. In so doing, she locations Moore within the culture of Modernism, defines Moore's quarrels with it, and hence produces a broader knowing of either the poet and the stream. Drawing on Moore's unpublished correspondence, her studying notebooks, and her workbooks, in addition to feminist criticism's awareness to writers who elude conventional serious methods, this wonderful learn presents much-needed insights into the Modernism, lifestyles, and artwork of Marianne Moore.

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