Submitted by Roberth Novaes (roberth.novaes@live.com) on 2018-09-27T13:41:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO RAQUEL BORGES DIAS.pdf: 20222510 bytes, checksum: be03b4ac9ea17c063e1b55b84632eb5e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-09-28T19:35:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO RAQUEL BORGES DIAS.pdf: 20222510 bytes, checksum: be03b4ac9ea17c063e1b55b84632eb5e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-28T19:35:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO RAQUEL BORGES DIAS.pdf: 20222510 bytes, checksum: be03b4ac9ea17c063e1b55b84632eb5e (MD5) / O presente estudo analisou o processo de criação da peça Um Porto para Elizabeth Bishop (2001), um monólogo para ser encenado, escrito por Marta Góes. A peça faz uma releitura da vida e da obra de Elizabeth Bishop, uma das maiores poetisas do século XX que, nas décadas de 50 e 60, residiu no Brasil. Buscou-se entender como se desenvolveu o processo de escritura da referida peça, cujos primeiros indícios podem ser identificados no manuscrito disponibilizado pela dramaturga. A fim de analisar esse processo de criação, os estudos da Crítica Genética serviram de embasamento teórico-metodológico, partindo de reflexões propostas especialmente pelos geneticistas Almuth Grésillon (1994) e Pierre-Marc de Biasi (2000). Foi proposta e realizada uma edição genética do material disponível a fim de tornar acessível o referido manuscrito de Marta Góes às pessoas que se interessam por essas áreas de conhecimento. / This study has analyzed the creative process of a dramatic monologue to be performed on stage, called A Safe Haven for Elizabeth Bishop, first published in Brazil as Um Porto para Elizabeth Bishop (2001), by Marta Góes. The play recreates the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, who lived in Brazil in the fifties and sixties. We have sought to understand how the writing process of the play has taken place by retracing the first indexes of such process identified in the manuscript provided by the author. In order to develop the referred analysis of such creative process, we have used Genetic Criticism as its theoretical and methodological basis, especially taking into account reflections by the geneticists Almuth Grésillon (1994) and Pierre-Marc de Biasi (2000). A genetic edition of the available material was proposed and developed in order to make the writing process of Marta Góes’s play accessible to people who are keen on studying such a field of interest.

Persuasion in poetry, according to Marianne Moore, is the result of three attributes, humility, concentration, and gusto, and when a poet is aware of these attributes and incorporates each one into his / her poetry, the poem is more likely to be meaningful. In fact, Moore’s theory stands as a meaningful test to any poet regardless of aesthetic preference. Therefore, in order to argue that the combination of these three concepts work together to produce persuasive poetry, I will show how all three of Moore’s tenets—humility, concentration, and gusto—are present in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop as well as in the most emotionally convincing poems of confessional poet Anne Sexton and associative free verse poet Mary Ruefle. In addition, I will discuss how Moore’s aesthetics apply to my own work.

This thesis examines Elizabeth Bishop's seemingly understated and yet nuanced poetry with a specific focus on loss, love, and language through domesticity to create a poetic home. In this sense, home offers security for a displaced orphan and lesbian, moving from filial to amorous love, as well as the literary home for a poet who struggled for critical recognition. Further, juxtaposing the familiar with the strange, Bishop situates her speaker in a construction of artificial and natural boundaries that break down across her topography and represent loss through the multiple female figures that permeate her poems to convey the uncertainty one experiences with homelessness. In order to establish home, Bishop sets her female relationships on a continuum as mother, aunt, grandmother, and lovers are equitably represented with similar tropes. In essence, what draws these women together remains their collective and familiar duty as potential caretaker, which is contrasted by their unusual absence in the respective poems that figure them. Contrary to the opinion most scholars hold, Bishop's reticence was a calculated device that progressed her speaker(s) toward moments of self discovery. In an attempt to uncover her voice, her place in the literary movements, and her very identity, critics narrowly define Bishop's vision by fracturing her identity and positing reductive readings of her work. By choosing multiple dichotomies that begin with a marginalized speaker and the centered women on her continuum, the paradox of Bishop's poetry eludes some readers as they try to queer her or simply reduce her to impersonal and reticent, while a holistic approach is needed to uncover the genesis of Bishop's poetic progression. To be sure, Bishop's women conflate into the collective image of loss, absence, and abandonment on Bishop's homosocial continuum as a way to achieve catharsis. Bishop's concern with unconditional love, coupled with the continual threat of abandonment she contends with coursing through her work, gives credence to the homosocial continuum that is driven by loss and love with the perpetual need to create a language to house Bishop from the painful memories of rejection. Bishop situates her speaker(s) in the margins, since it is at the center when the pain of loss is brought into light, to allow her fluid selves release from the prison loss creates. By reading her work through the lenses of orphan, lesbian, and female poet, the progression of her homosocial continuum, as I envision it, is revealed. It is through this continuum that Bishop comes to terms with loss and abandonment, while creating a speaking subject that grows with each poem. Without her continuum of powerful female relationships, Bishop's progression as a poet would be far less revealing. Indeed, defining herself through negation, Bishop's sense of homelessness is uncovered in juxtaposition to her centered female subjects, and I delve into these contestations of space/place as well as her figurations of home/ homelessness to discern Bishop's poetic craft as she channeled the painful details of her past, thus creating her "one art."

Ce travail présente la manière dont le regard d'Elizabeth Bishop appréhende le monde en refusant toute illusion de familiarité. Il étudie les diverses stratégies de défamiliarisation qui invitent le lecteur à redécouvrir les surprises que peuvent réserver l'ordinaire et le quotidien, ainsi que le rapport qui s'instaure entre le sujet lyrique et le monde dans ces conditions. Il s'agit d'analyser comment l'affleurement de l'étrange ou de l'informe dans le familier et l'intime permet d'accéder à une reconnaissance du soi plus ample et plus authentique. L'écriture de Bishop remet inlassablement en question la stabilité de la réalité, y compris celle du sujet, ainsi que toute notion d'acquis, ou d'acquisition dans le temps. C'est ainsi que sa voix – sa signature – se singularise et qu'elle se démarque de ses pairs, mais aussi de la société à laquelle elle appartient. Ce qui s'affirme au travers de son écriture n'est paradoxalement fait que d'incertitude et de vulnérabilité. Le sujet qui s'y forme se construit sur de l'éphémère, sur ses propres limites ; il ne peut s'appuyer que sur la découverte de l'aliénation exogène mais également endogène à laquelle il est confronté. Simultanément, cette écriture cherche des moyens de maintenir le sujet, par la résonance d'échos, par le foisonnement, la prolifération, autant de techniques qui le ramènent incessamment au manque, au vide, à la faille qu'elles sont supposées masquer. Cette thèse propose d'interroger le rapport entre perte et création dans l'œuvre de Bishop, la manière dont la création se nourrit de la perte, et dont elle entraîne le lecteur dans cette transaction, l'incluant par là-même dans le processus créatif. / This study examines the way Elizabeth Bishop's writings probe the world's seeming familiarity, how through various strategies of defamiliarization they reveal to the reader the hidden surprises of the ordinary, and how the lyrical subject relates to the world. As the strange and the shapeless surface within the intimate and the familiar, the persona gains access to a better and more authentic understanding of his-her own self. Bishop's writing relentlessly questions the stability of reality, including that of the self. It seems that the only knowledge available is that of uncertainty and contingency. Her voice is therefore necessarily singular and isolated, being itself in perpetual mutation. In order to maintain itself, her subject is constrained to rely on its own ephemeral and limited nature, as well as on external and internal alienation. Echoes and techniques of proliferation are construed to achieve that aim. Yet those techniques keep ! bringing the subject back to the lack, the absence, the gaps they are meant to bridge and cover up. Finally, this analysis explores the relationship between loss and creation: how creation is fueled by loss and how the reader is drawn into Bishop's writing thus ensuring the persistence of creation.

The Hat Lady Equation is a collection of poems by Lauren Capone. As influences she cites Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, among the exquisite minutiae of day-to-day living. The poems explore works of visual art by Alberto Giacometti, James Taylor Bonds, Chris Dennis, Blaine Capone (her brother), and creatures of the natural world including fish, the rhinoceros, a lettered olive shell. . . . Lauren shows a preoccupation with disassembling through the poems whether it's her identity, art, or happenings of everyday life.

Thesis advisor: Paul Mariani / Robert Lowell, Lyric and Life investigates the meaning of autobiography as it is represented and produced by the work of art. I begin by tracing Lowell's poetics to the highly personal Romanticism of William Wordsworth and the highly impersonal Modernism of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Allen Tate. Reading Lowell's writing in light of this dual inheritance, I am able to point out the limitations of calling Lowell's poetry "confessional" and to propose a model of the lyric self that accounts for the significant semiotic and psychological complexity that goes into the making of a lyric "I." I argue that, from a reader's point of view, Lowell's autobiographical poems are more creations of experience than they are records of experience; that, although the reader is supposed to believe he is "getting the real Robert Lowell," what he really gets is a fictive representation. Taking hold of what Robert Lowell called the "thread of autobiography" that strings together his life's work, I then trace the changing role of Lowell's autobiographical lyric self in a series of three chapters. The first of these chapters concerns the manuscript drafts and published poems of Life Studies (composed from 1953-1959) and, through attention to Lowell's revisions, demonstrates the great extent to which Lowell fictionalized his experience: for instance, by omitting some of the most personal details of the poems in favor of elegant prosodic or thematic composition. The next chapter takes up what I designate "the Notebook poems" (the sonnets published between 1967 and 1972 in the volumes Notebook 1967-68, Notebook, History, and For Lizzie & Harriet), examining the ways in which Lowell's move to New York City and his readings of Hannah Arendt, Eric Auerbach, Simone Weil, and Herbert Marcuse (among others) affected his views of the lyric self in relation to history. This chapter ends by arguing for the Dantesque contours of the Notebook poems, and again takes a close look at Lowell's drafts, including an unpublished essay on Dante. A final chapter examines two ekphrastic autobiographical poems ("Marriage" and "Epilogue"), from Lowell's final volume, Day by Day (1977), in relation to poems by Elizabeth Bishop and William Wordsworth. It concludes by showing, through a close reading of "Epilogue" and its drafts, Lowell's own retrospective concern to question and doubt the autobiographical pursuits of his poetry. A brief epilogue draws the variegated threads of these chapters together and offers a final reflection on the inextricable knot of Lowell's lyrics and his life by way of reading his final poems and the biographical record of his death. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English.

The poems in A Rat-Shaped Tear consider wide-ranging ideas of otherness using character and voice. Through misdirection, understatement and unexpected imagery I confront ideas of animal and female otherness in playful ways as a means of subverting traditional impressions of both. The othering effects of grief are also examined in poems that reflect on bereavement and mortality. Human-animal interaction is used to further explore the effects of death and disappointment, though overtones of cartoonish extravagance, dark humour and the surreal temper the more serious themes of loss, disillusionment and loneliness that recur within the collection. In the accompanying thesis, I focus on the work of three poets - D.H Lawrence, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop - each of whom confront animal otherness in their work. Through close examinations of their individual works, I explore the differences in approach to human-animal interaction, and the ways in which these poets draw meaning from animal otherness. It is suggested that although they engage with the concept using varied poetic techniques, they are drawn together by the intimations of spiritual transcendence that permeate each of their animal poetics.

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Este trabalho tem como objetivo anotar, traduzir e comentar uma parte da obra da escritora norteamericana Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), que viveu no Brasil durante cerca de vinte anos: seus textos de caráter jornalístico relacionados ao país. O mais extenso é o livro Brazil (1962), escrito sob encomenda dos editores da revista Life. O livro foi renegado pela autora, inconformada com as intervenções dos editores, e publicado sob coautoria. O cotejo entre os originais (preservados nos arquivos de Bishop, no Vassar College), o texto publicado em 1962 e as anotações da autora em seu exemplar (preservado na Harvard University) permite apontar as similaridades e, especialmente, os importantes contrastes entre a perspectiva de Bishop e a dos editores. Uma investigação sobre o momento em que o livro surgiu na vida da autora e na história do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos auxilia a compreensão não só do texto, mas também de sua escrita e dos episódios associados à sua edição. O trabalho se completa com a tradução e a anotação de outros cinco textos, dois dos quais ainda inéditos mesmo em inglês, vestígios de um projeto abandonado por Bishop: a elaboração de um novo livro sobre o país. / The aim of this work is to annotate, translate, and comment a part of the writings by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), the North-American writer, who lived in Brazil for approximately twenty years, focusing on her journalistic texts about that country. Her largest piece is a book called Brazil (1962) which was commissioned by the editors of Life magazine. However, the book was rejected by the author who refused to accept the interventions made by the editors. As a result, they co-authored it. Comparing the original (preserved in the Bishop archives at Vassar College) with the published text allows us to compare two different views of Brazil, to highlight similarities and especially the important contrasts between them. A research on the period the book was published focused on the author\'s life, as well as on the history of both Brazil and the U.S.A. helps to understand not only the text itself, but also how it was written and the episodes associated to its edition. The present work includes five additional texts, remains of a project that was abandoned by Bishop: the making of another book on Brazil. Two of these texts have remained unpublished to date, even in English.

[pt] O trabalho analisa relatos de memória, escritos poéticos e discursos urbanísticos sobre o Parque do Flamengo, construído no Rio de Janeiro entre os anos 1950 e 1960, para compreender o papel da imaginação e da linguagem em sua criação como artefato cultural na história da cidade. A implementação do plano urbanístico iniciada nos anos 1950 foi reelaborada na década de 1960, durante o Governo de Carlos Lacerda pelo Grupo de Trabalho, equipe multidisciplinar coordenada por Lota Macedo Soares e tendo à frente o arquiteto Affonso Eduardo Reidy e o paisagista Roberto Burle Marx. O jardim modernista carioca por eles projetado – obra paisagística e arquitetônica desdobrada em ambiente edificado, suas imagens e os discursos produzidos sobre ele – ganha significado na tese como forma cultural que articulou interpretações conflitantes da história expressas na cidade; que relacionou motivos míticos e históricos do jardim e da paisagem com métodos paisagísticos modernos; e que interconectou memórias e projeções de uma cidade imaginada. Entre os registros dessa obra coletiva, destaca-se a poesia de Elizabeth Bishop que recria as paisagens locais em novas imagens. Imaginar a cidade é ato poético, político e ético de seus habitantes, sempre um intercâmbio entre a dimensão subjetiva e a dimensão social. É a forma moderna de habitá-la: construí-la como cidade metafórica que conecta a experiência fugaz, fragmentária e conflituosa da vida metropolitana a alternativas possíveis de como as coisas poderiam ser. / [en] This work examines memory narratives, poetical writings and urbanistic discourses about the Parque do Flamengo, built in Rio de Janeiro during the 1950s and 1960s, in order to understand the role of imagination and language in its construction as a cultural artefact in the city s history. The implementation of this urban plan was started in the 1950s and was reworked in the 1960s, during the Government of Carlos Lacerda by Grupo de Trabalho, a multidisciplinary team coordinated by Lota Macedo Soares and headed by the architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy and the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. This modernist carioca garden – an architectural and landscape work threefold unfolded as a constructed environment, its images, and the accompanying critical discourses – gains importance in this thesis as a cultural artefact that brought together conflicting interpretations of history expressed in the city; entailed mythical and historical motives from garden and landscape to modern landscaping methods; and was the very fabric of memories and projections of an imagined city. Among others historical records of this collective work, the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop recreates the local landscapes in new images Imagining the city is a poetic, political and ethical act of its inhabitants, ever an exchange between subjective and social dimensions. It is the modern way of inhabiting the city: building it as a metaphorical city that links the fleeting, fragmentary and conflicting experience of urban life to possible alternatives of the way things could be.