The stoic comedy of Elizabeth Bishop and Buster Keaton
Elizabeth Bishop famously asserted in 1964 that poetry “can be cheerful AND profound! – or, how to be grim without groaning,” delineating a form of tragicomic equilibrium which she found embodied by “any of Buster Keaton’s films.” This article explores how Keaton provided Bishop with a model of stoi...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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