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THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY

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1985
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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 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.
Title: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY.
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Name(s): STIRNEMANN, SHIRLEY A.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Peyton, Ann, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1985
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 65 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: 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 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.
Identifier: 14233 (digitool), FADT14233 (IID), fau:11043 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911---Criticism and interpretation
Poets, American--20th century--History and criticism
Poetry, Modern--20th century
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