04691nam 2200901 a 450 991082140000332120230421041434.01-282-47321-297866124732101-4008-2086-31-4008-1139-210.1515/9781400820863(CKB)111056486506784(EBL)483540(OCoLC)700682009(SSID)ssj0000145486(PQKBManifestationID)11147493(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145486(PQKBWorkID)10158220(PQKB)10540767(MiAaPQ)EBC483540(OCoLC)51444586(MdBmJHUP)muse35942(DE-B1597)446053(OCoLC)979685146(DE-B1597)9781400820863(Au-PeEL)EBL483540(CaPaEBR)ebr10035769(CaONFJC)MIL247321(EXLCZ)9911105648650678419920731d1993 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrElizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore the psychodynamics of creativity /Joanne Feit DiehlCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19931 online resource (132 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-06975-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116) and index.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 --IndexThis 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.Feminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican poetryWomen authorsHistory and criticismPoets, American20th centuryPsychologyFeminist poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Women poets, AmericanPsychologyPoetryPsychological aspectsPsychoanalysis and literatureAuthorshipSex differencesCreative abilityFeminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryAmerican poetryWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Poets, AmericanPsychology.Feminist poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Women poets, AmericanPsychology.PoetryPsychological aspects.Psychoanalysis and literature.AuthorshipSex differences.Creative ability.811/.54Diehl Joanne Feit1947-1111904MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821400003321Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore3914555UNINA