ENGLISH

Reading Elizabeth Bishop: An Edinburgh Companion

By Jonathan Ellis

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781474421348
DOI
10.1515/9781474421348
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6237670 bytes)
Pages
360\350
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 03:02:47

Description

A comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fictionCelebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and national traditions, this collection of essays explores how Bishop moves between literal geographies like Nova Scotia, New England, Key West and Brazil and more philosophical categories like home and elsewhere, human and animal, insider and outsider.The book covers all aspects and periods of the author’s career, from her early writing in the 1930s to the late poems finished after Geography III and those works published after her death. It also examines how Bishop’s work has been read and reinterpreted by contemporary writers.Key FeaturesProvides a companion to Bishop’s entire artistic oeuvre, including letter writing, literary criticism and short story writingOffers a sustained consideration of Bishop’s identity politics, including the role of raceStudies Bishop’s influence on contemporary culture

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