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"We do not say ourselves like that in poems": The poetics of contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"We do not say ourselves like that in poems": The poetics of contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop./
Author:	White, Gillian C.
Description:	190 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2934.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188642
ISBN:	9780542307157

"We do not say ourselves like that in poems": The poetics of contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop.
White, Gillian C.

"We do not say ourselves like that in poems": The poetics of contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop. - 190 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2934.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

This dissertation examines Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop through an emerging discourse of contingency poetics. My first chapter explores "contingency" as a key concept in recent criticism of modernism and American poetics. While contingency used to connote the epistemological uncertainties occasioned by secular modernity, in recent years, it has come to mean "alterity." I argue that this shift occurred as certain of the avant-garde positioned themselves against a modernism seen as anxious over a loss of foundations and eager to reinstitute them in complex symbolic and formal structures. The avant-garde revalues contingency not as a source of anxiety but as that to which art should open. The resultant poetics asserts that an ethical response to contingency necessitates rejecting traditional forms in favor of disjunctive poetic techniques that allow the fragile alterity of experience to slip the nets of normative meanings and writerly control. This discourse describes that control as a shameful act, a will to mastery. I trace the roots of this ethical poetics to William Carlos Williams, who enjoins poets to reject tradition and embrace organic forms in the name of "reality." I argue that while Bishop and Stevens share Williams's concern about the politics of mastery, they question the link he forged between politics and form.

ISBN: 9780542307157Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

"We do not say ourselves like that in poems": The poetics of contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop.
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