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Article: Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority.
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- Criticism
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- January 1, 1997
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by Cristanne Miller (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). Pp. 303. $35.00.
Explaining how Marianne Moore likes to dismantle dichotomies, Cristanne Miller describes her own intellectual approach: "Her mind works toward connection" (141). This book's methods, that is, replicate its messages. It makes thematic and formal connections from one Moore poem to another; it engages in an ongoing intercourse with other critics and theorists; and it effectively preempts (or at least destabilizes) its own authority by using previous theoretical models and critical work, as well as by suggesting a loosely sketched principle of "authority." Miller establishes her ...