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Elizabeth Bishop in context / edited by Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College, Canada, Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
- Literature in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bishop, Elizabeth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators, this volume addresses the biographical and literary inception of Bishop's originality, from her formative upbringing in New England and Nova Scotia to long residences in New York, France, Florida and Brazil. Her poetry, prose, letters, translations and visual art are analysed in turn, followed by detailed studies of literary movements such as surrealism and modernism that influenced her artistic development. Bishop's encounters with nature, music, psychoanalysis and religion receive extended treatment, likewise her interest in dreams and humour. Essays also investigate the impact of twentieth-century history and politics on Bishop's life writing, and what it means to read Bishop via eco-criticism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Angus Cleghorn and Jonathan Ellis
- Part I: Places
- Nova Scotia / Sandra Barry
- New England / Heather Treseler
- New York / Jo Gill
- Paris, France / Lisa Goldfarb
- Florida / Sarah Kennedy
- Brazil / Neil Besner
- Part II: Forms
- Lyric poetry / Gillian White
- Prose / Vidyan Ravinthiran
- Letters / Langdon Hammer
- Translation / Mariana Machova
- Visual art Linda Anderson
- Archives / Bethany Hicok
- Part III: Literary contexts
- Romantic and Victorian poetry / Peter Swaab
- Surrealism and the Avant-Garde / Andrew Epstein
- Modernism / Philip McGowan
- Mid-Century Poetics / Kamran Javadizadeh
- Brazilian Literature / Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins
- Part IV: Politics, Society and Culture
- War / Charles Berger
- The Cold War / Steven Axelrod
- Music / Christopher Spaide
- Psychoanalysis / Lorrie Goldensohn
- Religion / Cheryl Walker
- Anthropology / Barbara Page
- Travel / Jeffrey Gray
- Part V: Identity
- Dreams / Bonnie Costello
- Humor / Rachel Trousdale
- Gender / Deryn Rees-Jones
- Queerness / Michael Snediker
- Race / Sandeep Parmar
- Nature / Angus Cleghorn
- Animals / Marianne MacRae
- Part VI: Reception and Criticism
- Bishop Studies / Thomas Travisano
- Criticism and Reviews / Jonathan Ellis
- "My saving grace": On Editing Elizabeth Bishop / Lloyd Schwartz
- Bishop's influence / Stephanie Burt.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Aug 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-85702-7
- 1-108-85317-X
- 1-108-85649-7
- OCLC:
- 1243019116
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