Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore: Essays from a Critical Renaissance - Paperback

by Elizabeth Gregory (Editor), Stacy Carson Hubbard (Editor)

Examines fresh biographical information and archival material to update current scholarship on Marianne Moore
Considers Moore's participation and influence on modernist movements and communities
Explores Moore's lesser-known post-World War II career

Back Jacket

This collection represents the growing twenty-first-century critical engagement with MarianneMoore's poetry: a Moore renaissance that draws on expanded biographical and archivalmaterials and new editions of her work. These essays by a lively group of established andemerging Moore scholars explore many new dimensions of Moore's poetry, including itsintimate relationships with food, numbers, labor politics, Persian art, religious hermeneutics, and dance. They examine the impact of precursors and contemporaries on Moore's oeuvre, as well as her poetry's influence on subsequent generations of artists. The volume also sheds new light on Moore's editorial work and on her underappreciated post-World War II career as acultural icon. The volume concludes with six brief scholarly memoirs on the evolution of Moore studies since the 1980s.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Gregory is Professor of English and Director of the Women's, Gender & SexualityStudies Program at the University of Houston, USA.
Stacy Carson Hubbard is Associate Professor of English, University of Buffalo, USA.