Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1

Description: Apparition of Splendor by Elizabeth Gregory Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 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, demonstrating that Moore used her late-life celebrity to activate egalitarian principles that had long animated her poetry. Publisher Description 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 in daring and innovative ways to activate egalitarian principles that had long animated her poetry. Dressed as George Washington in cape and tricorn and writing about accessible topics like sports, TV shows, holidays, love, activism, mortality and celebrity itself, she reached a wide cross-section of Americans, encouraging them to consider what democracy means in their daily lives, particularly around issues of gender, sexuality, racial integration, class, age, and immigration. Moore actively sought out publication in popular venues (like Vogue, The New Yorker, and the Saturday Evening Post, etc.) and wrote on material chosen to directly appeal to the audiences there, influencing younger contemporaries, including poets like Ashbery, OHara, and Bishop, and artists like Warhol, Yoko Ono, and Ray Johnson."Apparition of Splendor is brilliant and necessary. It provides an extended look at Marianne Moores late poetry that no other book-length study has taken on.... Gregorys deep expertise is evident throughout. Her discussions make visible startling networks of connections between poems, and - while maintaining keen focus on the late poems - briskly but sensitively draw upon the earlier poems to clarify continuities and suggest transformations. Her archival and extra-literary research, in Moores papers and in regard to general cultural contexts, is wonderfully on display with every page.The subject of Moores late poetry is woefully understudied, and this book will conduct an important intervention in critical tendencies to dismiss this body of work. Apparition of Splendor is a major contribution to Moore studies and to studies of 20th-century American poetry." - Linda Kinnahan, Duquesne University, author of Feminist Modernism, Poetics, and the New Economy: Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Author Biography ELIZABETH GREGORY is a Taylor Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of English at the University of Houston, directing the Womens Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Houston. She is the author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood and Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads." Details ISBN 1644531968 ISBN-13 9781644531969 Title Apparition of Splendor Author Elizabeth Gregory Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 280 Publisher University of Delaware Press GE_Item_ID:161792175; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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