Date of Award
1985
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Peyton, Ann
Abstract
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.
Extent
65 p.
Recommended Citation
STIRNEMANN, SHIRLEY A., "THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY" (1985). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 411.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/411
Identifier
FADT14233
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters