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Abstracts Abstracts Laura Corelle “Elizabeth Bishop and Christian Literary Tradition: Two Poems from North & South” In 1955 Elizabeth Bishop made the claim to her friend Robert Lowell that she had embraced “complete agnosticism.” In spite of Bishop’s sustained commitment to the belief that no absolute truths can be known, she frequently draws on biblical imagery and allusions in her poetry, sometimes overtly, more often implicitly. This essay explores Bishop’s engagement with that tradition during the period when she was moving toward agnosticism. Through close readings this essay reveals the deep roots in the Christian literary tradition of two poems from Bishop’s debut volume, “Rooster” and “Anaphora.” The Ž rst contains direct New Testament allusions which have not been critically examined in the past. The second, the poem Bishop places last in her volume, has received relatively scant critical attention; yet its resonance with and against Milton’s Lycidas particularly dramatizes Bishop’s own powerful – and poetically empowering – ambivalence. Together these works demonstrate Bishop conducting a painstaking scrutiny, in the decade before her pronouncement of agnosticism, of the long-enmeshed relationship between Western literature, Christianity, and oppression. Ihab Hassan “Identity and Imagination: David Malouf and Hossein Valamanesh in Process” A http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

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Religion and the Arts , Volume 6 (4): 555 – Jan 1, 2002
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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1079-9265
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Abstracts Laura Corelle “Elizabeth Bishop and Christian Literary Tradition: Two Poems from North & South” In 1955 Elizabeth Bishop made the claim to her friend Robert Lowell that she had embraced “complete agnosticism.” In spite of Bishop’s sustained commitment to the belief that no absolute truths can be known, she frequently draws on biblical imagery and allusions in her poetry, sometimes overtly, more often implicitly. This essay explores Bishop’s engagement with that tradition during the period when she was moving toward agnosticism. Through close readings this essay reveals the deep roots in the Christian literary tradition of two poems from Bishop’s debut volume, “Rooster” and “Anaphora.” The Ž rst contains direct New Testament allusions which have not been critically examined in the past. The second, the poem Bishop places last in her volume, has received relatively scant critical attention; yet its resonance with and against Milton’s Lycidas particularly dramatizes Bishop’s own powerful – and poetically empowering – ambivalence. Together these works demonstrate Bishop conducting a painstaking scrutiny, in the decade before her pronouncement of agnosticism, of the long-enmeshed relationship between Western literature, Christianity, and oppression. Ihab Hassan “Identity and Imagination: David Malouf and Hossein Valamanesh in Process” A

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