Presented By: Department of English Language and Literature
Looking into Elizabeth Bishop: Poetry and Philosophical Reasoning
Johanna Winant, University of West Virginia
Bishop is celebrated for her descriptions; this talk recasts her ‘famous eye’ not as sight but as attempts at insight, and specifically as the kind of reasoning that philosophy calls inference to the best explanation. We can then see that she's attending to how things look in order to tell us how they work.
Johanna Winant is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. She is completing a book titled Lyric Logic: Modern American Poetry and Reasoning. Her writing appears in JML, Poetics Today, Paideuma, James Joyce Quarterly, Post45 Contemporaries, Slate, and elsewhere.
Johanna Winant is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. She is completing a book titled Lyric Logic: Modern American Poetry and Reasoning. Her writing appears in JML, Poetics Today, Paideuma, James Joyce Quarterly, Post45 Contemporaries, Slate, and elsewhere.
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