Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil / Bethany Hicok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicok, Bethany, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Homes and haunts--Brazil.

Bishop, Elizabeth.

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and interpretation.

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.

Women poets, American--20th century.

Women poets, American.

Literature and society--Brazil.

Literature and society.

Women intellectuals.

Travel writing.

Women translators.

Criticism and interpretation.

Brazil.

Women translators--Brazil.

Travel writing--Brazil.

Women intellectuals--United States--Biography.

Brazil--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Homes.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Summary:

When the American poet Elizabeth Bishop arrived in Brazil in 1951 at the age of forty, she had not planned to stay, but her love affair with the Brazilian aristocrat Lota de Macedo Soares and with the country itself set her on another course, and Brazil became her home for nearly two decades. In this groundbreaking new study, Bethany Hicok offers Bishop's readers the most comprehensive study to date on the transformative impact of Brazil on the poet's life and art. Drawing on archival sources that include Bishop's unpublished travel writings and providing provocative new readings of the poetry, Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil is a long-overdue exploration of a pivotal phase in this great poet's life and work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Samambaia and the architecture of class

Letters from the road

Bishop's Brazilian translations

Bishop's Brazilian politics

Amazon worlds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813938547

0813938546

9780813938530

0813938538

OCLC:

927192289