January 2014 Volume 10, Issue 1 ASEBL Journal Association for the Study of (Ethical Behavior)•(Evolutionary Biology) in Literature EDITOR St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. ~ ~▪▪~ ADVISORY EDITOR THIS ISSUE FEATURES Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Ph.D. ~ EDITORIAL BOARD † Sarah Giragosian, “Repetition and the Honest Signal in Kristy Biolsi, Ph.D. Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics” p. 2 Kevin Brown, Ph.D. † Tom Dolack, “Consciousness, Ethics and Dostoevsky’s Underground Man” p. 13 Wendy Galgan, Ph.D. ~▪~ Cheryl L. Jaworski, M.A. Philosophical Essay † Ben Irvine, “Savouring the View: David E. Cooper’s ‘Daoist’ Joe Keener, Ph.D. Philosophy of Nature,” p. 22 Eric Luttrell, Ph.D. ~▪~ Anja Müller-Wood, Ph.D. Book Reviews: Kathleen A. Nolan, Ph.D. † Review Essay, Patricia Churchland’s Braintrust, by Eric Luttrell, p. 34 Riza Öztürk, Ph.D. † Dennis Krebs, Christopher Boehm, Mark Pagel, Eric Platt, Ph.D. and Alex Mesoudi on the evolution of morality and culture, by Gregory F. Tague, p. 41 EDITORIAL INTERNS † Jared Diamond’s The World until Yesterday, by Eric Platt, p. 59 Tyler Perkins ~▪~ Luke Kluisza Contributors, p. 64 Announcements, p. 64 ASEBL Journal Copyright©2014 E-ISSN: 1944-401X
[email protected] www.asebl.blogspot.com Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals ASEBL Journal – Volume 10 Issue 1, January 2014 Repetition and the Honest Signal in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics Sarah Giragosian Many fine critics of Elizabeth Bishop’s work, including David Kalstone, Bonnie Costello, and David Shapiro, have discussed Bishop’s natural inclination towards repetition. Shapiro argues that Bishop’s repetition, whether metrical, sonic, tropic, or syntactic, does not insist upon “consciousness or voice” in the way of Gertrude Stein, but instead enables the poet to “compose and decompose with repetition and persistence to give a very palpable thickness .