Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity

by Victoria Bazin

Book Overview

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 modernity, on textual extracts and reproductions, on the phantasmagoria...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032926562
• ISBN13: 9781032926568
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages