Dis/Appearance for Appeal: On Marianne Moore's "Performing" Archive

IF 0.5 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

STYLE Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.5325/style.56.3.0280

W. Liu

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abstract:This article discusses Marianne Moore's archival practices through the lens of live speech and performance. While it is common to view Moore's poetic archive—both her eclectic composition and her collage form—as embodying the tension between knowledge and reality, her borrowing from live speech also draws attention to the tension between written documents and speech acts, between text and performance. Invoking Diana Taylor's idea that the liveness of performance necessarily disappears in archival documents, the author argues that Moore's archival practices enact a drama of dis/appearance by creating appearances of speech that measure themselves against states of disappearance. The dis/appearance of speech in Moore's poetry evinces her obsession with liveness and her discernable concern to hold the audience's attention; it illuminates how Moore wants her poetry to "appeal" to the reader. Through elaborating on her incorporation of live speech and its affinities with her performances, this article seeks to take an appeal as a fulcrum for interpreting Moore's poetry and amplify the critical vocabulary for describing her readers' engrossment and infatuation. Moore's poetry often animates a quest for knowledge, but it also aims at the very effect of engaging us in the "here and now." Her "performing" archive, by letting live speech dis/appear, ultimately challenges us to envision a modernist poetics that has appeal as its major theme and ethos.

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Dis/Appearance for Appeal:论Marianne Moore的“表演”档案

摘要：本文从现场演讲和表演的角度探讨了玛丽安•摩尔的档案实践。虽然人们普遍认为摩尔的诗歌档案——包括她不拘一格的作品和拼贴形式——体现了知识与现实之间的张力，但她从现场演讲中借用的内容也引起了人们对书面文件与言语行为之间、文本与表演之间的张力的关注。作者引用了戴安娜·泰勒的观点，即表演的生动性必然会在档案文件中消失，认为摩尔的档案实践通过创造与消失状态相对应的言语表象，上演了一场消失的戏剧。摩尔诗歌中言语的缺失表明了她对生活的痴迷，以及她对吸引观众注意力的明显关注；它阐明了摩尔希望她的诗歌如何“吸引”读者。通过阐述她对现场演讲的融入及其与表演的密切关系，本文试图以一种吸引力为支点来解读摩尔的诗歌，并扩大批评词汇来描述她的读者的全神贯注和迷恋。摩尔的诗歌经常激发对知识的追求，但它也旨在让我们参与“此时此地”的效果。她的“表演”档案，通过让现场演讲消失/出现，最终挑战我们设想一种以吸引力为主要主题和精神的现代主义诗学。

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