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Bishop, Elizabeth - 1911–79, American poet, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Vassar, 1934. During the 1950s and 1960s she lived in Brazil, eventually returning to her native New England, where she taught at Harvard (1970–77). Her first volume of poetry, North and South (1946), was reprinted with additions as North and South—A Cold Spring (1955; Pulitzer Prize). Her poetic vision is

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Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography » Read Now
by Peter Brazeau, Gary Fountain. 410 pgs.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel » Read Now
by Kim Fortuny. 121 pgs.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language » Read Now
by C. K. Doreski. 182 pgs.

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This illuminating study examines Elizabeth Bishop's rhetorical strategies and the way they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. Unlike other recent studies of Bishop, Doreski's does not concern itself primarily with her visual imagery, but rather deals with her poetry...
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This illuminating study examines Elizabeth Bishop's rhetorical strategies and the way they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. Unlike other recent studies of Bishop, Doreski's does not concern itself primarily with her visual imagery, but rather deals with her poetry as a series of linguistic strategies designed to create the maximum illusion of representation while resisting the romantic devices of self-revelation and solipsistic narration. Doreski argues that Bishop takes advantage of the inadequacies of language, and with a postmodern sense of limitation explores the gaps and silences narrative must bridge with the mundane, the patently inadequate, leaving an air of emotional intimacy without committing itself to the banality of full exposure. This study finds the poems and stories mutually illuminating, but while moving back and forth among her various works, acknowledges the intelligent ordering of the volumes Bishop published in her lifetime.
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The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics » Read Now
by Marilyn May Lombardi. 270 pgs.

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'The aim of The Body And The Song--to offer the reader fresh perspective on the complex relation between soma and psyche in fashioning and framing a poem--is important and furthers scholarship and interpretation in Bishop studies.
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Brazil » Read Now
by Elizabeth Bishop. 163 pgs.

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Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity » Read Now
by Joanne Feit Diehl. 119 pgs.

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This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore. Departing from Freudian models of influence theory that ignore the question of maternal presence, Joanne Diehl applies the...
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This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore. Departing from Freudian models of influence theory that ignore the question of maternal presence, Joanne Diehl applies the psychoanalytic insights of object relations theorists Melanie Klein and Christopher Bollas to woman-to- woman literary transactions. She lays the groundwork for a far-reaching critical approach as she shows that Bishop, mourning her separation from her natural mother, strives to balance gratitude toward Moore, her literary mother, with a potentially disabling envy. Diehl begins by exploring Bishop's memoir of Moore, Efforts of Affection, as an attempt by Bishop to verify Moore's uniqueness in order to defend herself against her predecessor's almost overwhelming originality. She then offers an intertextual reading of the two writers' works that inquires into Bishop's ambivalence toward Moore. In an analysis of Crusoe in England and In the Village, Diehl exposes the restorative impulses that fuel aesthetic creation and investigates how Bishop thematizes an understanding of literary production as a process of psychic compensation.
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Stein, Bishop & Rich: Lyrics of Love, War & Place » Read Now
by Margaret Dickie. 234 pgs.

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...Council on interpretation. 6. Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and...59 4 Half Is Enough: Elizabeth Bishops Love Poetry 82 5...and Class 104 6 Elizabeth Bishops What...
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White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness » Read Now
by Renee R. Curry. 184 pgs.

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Just as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write. This book explores the relationship between three prominent twentieth-century American white women poets and the manifestations of whiteness in their works. The book...
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Just as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write. This book explores the relationship between three prominent twentieth-century American white women poets and the manifestations of whiteness in their works. The book argues that white women who write do so from within ideological, social, economic, political, and psychological frameworks of whiteness. Each chapter places one poet in relation to historical and cultural racial events prevalent during the time of her writings and explores the particular poems created and published during that period.
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Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism and the Left, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Betsy Erkkila. 27 pgs.

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From Maps to Monuments: Elizabeth Bishop's Shoreline Poems, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Jonathan Ellis. 16 pgs.

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Natural History and Epiphany: Elizabeth Bishop's Darwin Letter, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Zachariah Pickard. 14 pgs.

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Modern Poetry after Modernism (Chap. Two "Elizabeth Bishop's Bramble Bushes" and Chap. Three "Elizabeth Bishop's Social Conscience") » Read Now
by James Longenbach. 209 pgs.

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...poetry cannot account for Elizabeth Bishops career; it grew from my realization...Poetry? 3 TWO Elizabeth Bishops Bramble Bushes 22 THREE Elizabeth Bishops Social...
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What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Chap. 7 "Picturing Pleasure: Some Poems by Elizabeth Bishop") » Read Now
by Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas. 292 pgs.

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A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory? is a vigorous engagement with the question : how today are theory and progressive thought connected? This book brings together not only...
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A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory? is a vigorous engagement with the question : how today are theory and progressive thought connected? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.
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After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America ("Elizabeth Bishop's Silences" begins on p. 31) » Read Now
by Vernon Shetley. 212 pgs.

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)" begins on p. 25) » Read Now
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a...
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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.
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