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.
| ISBN: | 9781108811378 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2023 |
| Author: | Angus J Cleghorn, Jonathan Ellis |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 497 pages |
| Series: | Literature in Context |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |