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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 December 2009
      29 January 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511519307
      9780521432030
      9780521062121
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519307
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.533kg, 272 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 272 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (62)
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (62)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and post-modern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Elizabeth Bishop's career, dividing her work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work, her writing in Brazil, and her late retrospective verse. By examining letters and notebooks, Harrison unfolds the biographical events that influenced Bishop's poetic style, addressing her treatment of such topics as family relations, history, politics, war, love, sexuality and ethnic differences. Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy delves extensively into the Bishop archives. Making wider use of Bishop's unpublished work, Harrison explores Bishop's childhood memoirs, journals, letters, Brazilian travel prose, unfinished poems and draft material. The reproduction of these archival materials - with revisions, cancelled lines, notes - shows a mind at work and a career in evolution.

    Reviews

    "Harrison makes exciting use of drafts of Bishop's poetry, unpublished journal entries, and letters....Harrison's work is strong throughout....[She] is also a fine reader of poems." Cristanne Miller, The New England Quarterly

    "Harrison's painstaking attention to Bishop's published and unpublished writing, drafts, letters, notebooks, fragments, marginalia and archival materials, some heretofore unexamined, and her equally careful methodology have the personal poetics of a complex figure sho has come into her own." Jean H. Wilson, Studies in the Humanities

    "Harrison is strong, alert, and sometimes downright revelatory when engaged with poems and stories (especially unpublished writings) that deal with Bishop's inner-conflicts about sexuality, anger, politics, and culture....[T]his challenging contribution to Bishop studies is strongly recommended for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and faculty." Choice

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