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  • Media type: E-Book; Conference Proceedings
  • Title: Reading Elizabeth Bishop : an Edinburgh companion
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    Contributors
    Note on the Text
    Introduction: Incompatible Bishops?
    PART I: IDENTITY
    Disturbances of the Archive: Repetition and Memory in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry
    2 ‘Manuelzinho’, Brazil and Identity Politics
    3 Elizabeth Bishop’s Immersion in ‘The Riverman’ Melissa Zeiger
    4 ‘The color of the world all together’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Diffraction Patterns
    PART II: THOUGHT
    5 ‘I take off my hat’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Comedy of Self-Revelation
    6 ‘This heaped-up autobiography’: The Role of Religion in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry
    7 Elizabeth Bishop: Life Change and Poetic Transformation
    8 ‘Swerving as I swerve’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Fugitive Empathy
    9 Repetition and Poetic Process: Bishop’s Nagging Thoughts
    PART III: POETRY
    10 ‘Solid cuteness’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Simplicity
    11 Elizabeth Bishop and ‘a bad case of the Threes’
    12 The Case of the Falling S: Elizabeth Bishop, Visual Poetry and the International Avant-Garde
    13 ‘The Moose’ as Movie: Elizabeth Bishop as Screenwriter
    PART IV: PROSE
    14 Migrating Letters
    15 Patterns of Time and the Maternal in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bishop and Katherine Mansfield
    16 ‘Thinking with one’s feelings’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Literary Criticism
    PART V: OTHER PLACES, OTHER PEOPLE
    17 ‘Private faces in public places’: Bishop’s Triptych of Cold War Washington
    18 Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Islandology
    19 Elizabeth Bishop and Audre Lorde: Two Views of ‘Florida’ in the Global South Atlantic
    20 Innocents Abroad? Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Overseas
    21 Elizabeth Bishop in Ireland: From Seamus Heaney to Colm Tóibín
    22 Elizabeth Bishop at the End of the Rainbow
    Index
  • Contributor: Ellis, Jonathan [HerausgeberIn]; Bishop, Elizabeth [ErwähnteR]
  • imprint: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
  • Published in: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 346 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781474421348
  • ISBN: 9781474421348
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: HU 3159 : Sekundärliteratur
  • Keywords: Bishop, Elizabeth
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • 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
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB