"매혹적인 모순"

• 영문명: "Fascinating Incongruities": Elizabeth Bishop's Spiritual Poetics (1)
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 정은귀(Chung, Eun-Gwi)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제31집, 185~208쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.06.30

영문 초록

Elizabeth Bishop's relationship to Christianity has been regarded as ambivalent, sometimes vexed. This essay explores the undercurrent of religious, spiritual musings in Bishop's poems and proposes that her spiritual poems, in the form of "fascinating incongruities," successfully pose religious and ethical questions in her/our time. Challenging the recent academic practice on the relationship between Bishop and religion, I will go further into attempting a playful reading of "The Prodigal" and "One Art" as the intersection of secularity and spirituality. How did Bishop confront the values embedded in the tradition of Christian allegory, how did she wrestle with the status of homelessness in her poems, how did she contemplate and describe the human condition of 'being lost'? Following these questions, the intangible connection between alcohol and poetic imagination, between loss and writing can also be noted. Above all, I argue that Bishop's spiritual wanderings presented in these two 'overtly and covertly' religious poems without the presence of God are, in fact, the sign of ethical responsibility to her life as a poet. And I call her spiritual response to the status of 'being lost' as 'po-ethica.'

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. 돌아오지 않는 탕자, 몰락의 윤리

Ⅲ. 놓아주기와 체념의 미학

Ⅳ. 글을 나가며

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

엘리자베스 비숍 『탕자』 『하나의 예술』 기독교 시-윤리학 Elizabeth Bishop The Prodigal One Art Christianity po-ethica.