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Elizabeth Bishop in Context (Hardback)

by Angus Cleghorn, Jonathan Ellis

Cambridge University Press

Hardcover 400 pages English Aug 26, 2021

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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.
Author:
Angus Cleghorn, Jonathan Ellis
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Aug 26, 2021
Number of pages:
400 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1108495974
ISBN-13:
9781108495974