Apparition of Splendor

Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64453-196-9
Verlag: University of Delaware Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of the iconic, cross-dressing public persona Moore developed to deliver them, Apparition of Splendor demonstrates that Moore used her late-life celebrity to activate egalitarian principles that had long animated her poetry, in daring and innovative ways. Dressed as George Washington in cape and tricorn and writing about accessible topics, she reached a wide cross-section of Americans, engaging them in consideration of what democracy means in their daily lives, around issues of gender, sexuality, racial integration, class, age, immigration, and species-ism. Her work resonates with that of her younger contemporaries, including poets like John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Bishop, and artists like Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, and Ray Johnson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregory, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

ELIZABETH GREGORY divides her life as a researcher between literary studies (particularly Moore studies) and explorations of the intersections of fertility and women’s work. She directs the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Houston in Texas, where she is a professor of English. Her books apart from this one include Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood, Quotation and Modern American Poetry: “’Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads’”, and two edited collections —The Critical Response to Marianne Moore and, with Stacy Carson Hubbard, Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore: Essays from a Critical Renaissance; and an online edition of one of Moore’s late poetry notebooks, as part of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive. She is currently engaged in a project on Building a Culture and Economy of Care.