| Description |
x, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Contents |
1. Articulating a Personal Poetics -- 2. Writing Intimacy -- 3. Turning History Under -- 4. Gathering in a Childhood -- 5. Confronting Brazil -- 6. Closing Together |
| Summary |
Elizabeth Bishop charges the moments of her writing with the desires, fears, and passions of her life |
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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy, a biographical and critical study of one of the great poets of this century, offers a fresh look at Bishop's published and unpublished writing over the course of her career. Informed by pragmatic, post-modern, and feminist theories, Victoria Harrison's study also makes extensive use of Bishop's archives, many pieces of which have never been discussed, to reveal the process of the poet's writing. Harrison explores Bishop's childhood memoirs, journals, letters, Brazilian travel prose, unfinished poems, and draft material, researching dates of undated material and reproducing Bishop's revisions, cancellations, and idiosyncratic spellings. Attentiveness to the detail of this archival writing gives Harrison a broad foundation for arguing that Bishop treats some of our largest concerns - family relationships, sexuality, war, and cultural differences - within poetry and prose that are intimate but not self-revelatory and daily but never ordinary |
| Analysis |
English poetry |
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United States |
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English poetry |
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United States |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p232-241. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-241) and index |
| Subject |
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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Poetry -- Psychological aspects.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
92018960 |
| ISBN |
0521432030 |
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