Reading Elizabeth Bishop : an Edinburgh companion / edited by Jonathan Ellis. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Jonathan, Author.

Contributor:

Ellis, Jonathan, 1975- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bishop, Elizabeth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 346 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

1-4744-6511-0

1-4744-2134-2

OCLC:

1312726359