Banca de DEFESA: REBECCA RIBEIRO PATAS DA CUNHA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : REBECCA RIBEIRO PATAS DA CUNHA
DATE: 14/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/xpd-bpuo-mat
TITLE:

GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE POEM APARTMENT IN LEME, COPACABANA (JAN.1ST) BY E. BISHOP

KEY WORDS:

Elizabeth Bishop; Apartment in Leme; Process; Culture; mythical-religious
elements.

PAGES: 91
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas
SUMMARY:

The present work presents an investigation of the creative process of the poem Apartment in
Leme, Copacabana (Jan. 1st) by the North American poet, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), in
the light of the concepts of Genetic Criticism and Social Anthropology. It is an interpretative
analysis of the referred poem, especially focusing on the last documented version that
dialogues with extracts of Bishop’s correspondence and two chapters of her book Brazil:
chapter four, Three Capitals, and six, Unselfconscious Arts. The originals of the poem in
question consist of twenty-nine pages of dated and crossed-out drafts in the author's hand,
which are in the archives of the Vassar College Special Collection, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York. The poem was published after Elizabeth Bishop's death in the book
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke Box: uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments (2006), edited by
Alice Quinn, under the name Apartment in Leme, along with other poems, drafts and
fragments from the Elizabeth Bishop archive. This dissertation aimed to make a thorough
observation behind the scenes of the chosen poem, especially focusing on issues of Culture
and Cultural Shock (Oberg, 1960). Furthermore, Brazilian mythical-religious elements in
Bishop ́s work were also analyzed, thus enabling new perspectives and considerable
developments on a posthumous poem, as well as on the intricate relationship between the
northern hemisphere where Bishop came from and the southern Brazilian culture that
emerged in the author’s writing.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.683.207-** - SILVIA MARIA GUERRA ANASTACIO - UFBA
Interno - 1159422 - TIAGO BARBOSA DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - ELISABETE DA SILVA BARBOSA - UNEB