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Rewriting the (M)other

其他書名	The Literary Emergence of Marianne Moore
出版	Temple University, 1998
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BU0bHQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋New York in the early decades of the twentieth century became a center for the arts in the United States. After settling in Greenwich Village in 1918, Marianne Moore insinuated herself into that society almost effortlessly. Her poetry was published by "The Dial", the leading arts magazine of its day, as well as in other magazines, and she received the coveted Dial Award in 1924. She became the editor of "The Dial" in 1925 where she remained until the summer of 1929. She published none of her own poetry while editor but during these years Moore was in close contact with the leading writers of the day both in the United States as well as in England and Europe. Essentially this dissertation focuses on the time after 1930 when Moore moved to a small apartment in Brooklyn, professionally unemployed outside the home, living with her mother who was her constant companion and critic. I examine her life and professional development during the following decades. This necessarily involves some consideration of her earlier as well as some of her later poems for comparison contrast. Moore continues to rewrite the mother according to her own gifts and insights, often creatively incorporating into her poetry many of the mother's verbal observations but reshaping them in accordance with her own uniqueness. After Mrs. Moore's death in 1947, however, there is a subtle but often evident change in her work's content as well as form. Many of the studies that have been made about Marianne Moore's poetry and life have placed emphasis on her earlier work published between 1915 and 1924. I am convinced, however, that each phase of a poet's development sheds light on every other phase. I think, therefore, that a study such as this one has a value in itself and will be a contribution to the body of Moore scholarship.