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Title
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THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY.
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Creator
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STIRNEMANN, SHIRLEY A., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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Abstract/Description
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There is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic...
Show moreThere is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic development, Bishop's poetry may be seen to reflect the ontogenetic growth of the mind of western man and to be an adumbration of the same whole to part-to-whole to whole-of-parts schema which characterizes Western philosophical thought in general.
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Date Issued
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1985
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14233
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Subject Headings
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Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911---Criticism and interpretation, Poets, American--20th century--History and criticism, Poetry, Modern--20th century
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Format
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Document (PDF)
