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Women Poets and the American Sublime

By: Joanne Feit Diehl

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Women Poets and the American Sublime

By: Joanne Feit Diehl

Employing current work in gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism and focusing on Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich, the author delineates an alternative tradition of American women poets, what Diehl calls the American Counter-Sublime. "This is the best book on American women poets I have yet seen." American Literature. "... sophisticated and eloquently argued analysis of a female counter-sublime..." Sandra Gilbert. "... strong readings of Dickinson and Moore and... a vital polemic on behalf of feminist criticism." Harold Bloom. "This brilliant re-evaluation of major American women poets will be indispensable reading... A stunning and a magisterial achievement." Susan Gubar. "... a powerful thesis... a book that is as rich as it is dense in meaning." The Women's Review of Books.

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Indiana University Press

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025331741X

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9780253317414

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

The Psychodynamics of Creativity

By: Joanne Feit Diehl

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Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

The Psychodynamics of Creativity

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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.

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Princeton University Press

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1400820863

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Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination

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Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination

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Evaluating Emily Dickinson's poetry within the context of Romanticism, Joanne Diehl demonstrates how the poet both manifests and boldly subverts this literary tradition. One of the most important reasons for the poet's divergence from it, Professor Diehl argues, is a powerful sense of herself as a woman, which also creates a feeling of estrangement from the company of major male Romantic precursors. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400853796

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9781400853793

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

The Psychodynamics of Creativity

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Women Poets and the American Sublime

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Book's by Joanne Feit Diehl

Women Poets and the American Sublime

Women Poets and the American Sublime

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination

Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

Women Poets and the American Sublime

Women Poets and the American Sublime

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