Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss

by Susan McCabe

Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work--poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material--to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art object and an impersonal artist; Bishop's writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271025611
• ISBN13: 9780271025612
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"