Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender

Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender
ISBN-10
0813914442
ISBN-13
9780813914442
Series
Elizabeth Bishop
Category
Literary Collections
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Author
Marilyn May Lombardi

Description

This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in the field- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's vision and the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challenges our assumptions about placement and orientation. These scholars argue that Bishop's "sense of difference" as an orphan, a woman artist, and a lesbian plays a significant role in the questioning of aesthetic, ethical, and sexual boundaries that is so much a part of her poetic practice. Drawing on central issues of Bishop's personal life, the book considers the ways in which the poet's art confronts the female body, the sexual politics of literary tradition, and the pleasures and perils of language itself.

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