Reading Elizabeth Bishop : : An Edinburgh Companion / / Jonathan Ellis.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of 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