Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore : the psychodynamics of creativity / Joanne Feit Diehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Poets, American--20th century--Psychology.

Poets, American.

Feminist poetry, American--History and criticism.

Feminist poetry, American.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Women poets, American--Psychology.

Women poets, American.

Poetry--Psychological aspects.

Poetry.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Creative ability.

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and interpretation.

Bishop, Elizabeth.

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Moore, Marianne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore. Departing from Freudian models of influence theory that ignore the question of maternal presence, Joanne Diehl applies the psychoanalytic insights of object relations theorists Melanie Klein and Christopher Bollas to woman-to-woman literary transactions. She lays the groundwork for a far-reaching critical approach as she shows that Bishop, mourning her separation from her natural mother, strives to balance gratitude toward Moore, her literary mother, with a potentially disabling envy. Diehl begins by exploring Bishop's memoir of Moore, "Efforts of Affection," as an attempt by Bishop to verify Moore's uniqueness in order to defend herself against her predecessor's almost overwhelming originality. She then offers an intertextual reading of the two writers' works that inquires into Bishop's ambivalence toward Moore. In an analysis of "Crusoe in England" and "In the Village," Diehl exposes the restorative impulses that fuel aesthetic creation and investigates how Bishop thematizes an understanding of literary production as a process of psychic compensation.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: The Muse's Monogram

CHAPTER ONE. "Efforts of Affection": Toward a Theory of Female Poetic Influence

CHAPTER TWO. Reading Bishop Reading Moore

CHAPTER THREE. The Memory of Desire and the Landscape of Form: Reading Bishop through Object-Relations Theory

CONCLUSION: Object Relations, Influence, and the Woman Poet

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116) and index.

ISBN:

9786612473210

9781282473218

1282473212

9781400820863

1400820863

9781400811397

1400811392

OCLC:

700682009