UID:
almafu_9959403048002883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 346 pages).
ISBN:
1-4744-6511-0
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1-4744-2134-2
Series Statement:
Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities
Content:
A comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including correspondence, literary criticism, prose fiction and visual art. Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and literary 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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contributors --
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Note on the Text --
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Introduction: Incompatible Bishops? --
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PART I: IDENTITY --
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Disturbances of the Archive: Repetition and Memory in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry --
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2 ‘Manuelzinho’, Brazil and Identity Politics --
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3 Elizabeth Bishop’s Immersion in ‘The Riverman’ Melissa Zeiger --
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4 ‘The color of the world all together’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Diffraction Patterns --
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PART II: THOUGHT --
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5 ‘I take off my hat’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Comedy of Self-Revelation --
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6 ‘This heaped-up autobiography’: The Role of Religion in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry --
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7 Elizabeth Bishop: Life Change and Poetic Transformation --
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8 ‘Swerving as I swerve’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Fugitive Empathy --
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9 Repetition and Poetic Process: Bishop’s Nagging Thoughts --
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PART III: POETRY --
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10 ‘Solid cuteness’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Simplicity --
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11 Elizabeth Bishop and ‘a bad case of the Threes’ --
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12 The Case of the Falling S: Elizabeth Bishop, Visual Poetry and the International Avant-Garde --
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13 ‘The Moose’ as Movie: Elizabeth Bishop as Screenwriter --
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PART IV: PROSE --
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14 Migrating Letters --
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15 Patterns of Time and the Maternal in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bishop and Katherine Mansfield --
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16 ‘Thinking with one’s feelings’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Literary Criticism --
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PART V: OTHER PLACES, OTHER PEOPLE --
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17 ‘Private faces in public places’: Bishop’s Triptych of Cold War Washington --
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18 Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Islandology --
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19 Elizabeth Bishop and Audre Lorde: Two Views of ‘Florida’ in the Global South Atlantic --
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20 Innocents Abroad? Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Overseas --
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21 Elizabeth Bishop in Ireland: From Seamus Heaney to Colm Tóibín --
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22 Elizabeth Bishop at the End of the Rainbow --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-2133-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474421348
URL:
Edinburgh scholarship online
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