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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description

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Many readers are struck by Elizabeth Bishop's use of clear, striking descriptions of the physical world, and no scholar has ever asked how Bishop's commitment to description shapes her writing and ...
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  • 01 August 2010
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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description argues that attention to the material realm informs everything Bishop does. Seen through this lens, many familiar topics look remarkably different. Bishop's relationship to travel, epiphany, surrealism, and imagery are all transformed, and a timely new Bishop emerges - one quite different from the postmodern poet that has dominated recent scholarship.
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Price: $110.00
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date: 01 August 2010
ISBN: 9780773576100
Format: eBook
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Zachariah Pickard is assistant professor of language and literature at Bard High School Early College II in New York City.