218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop, Jonathan Ellis offers evidence for a redirection in Bishop studies toward a more thorough scrutiny of the links between Bishop's art and life. The book is less concerned with the details of what actually happened to Bishop than with the ways in which she refracted key events into writing: both personal, unpublished material as well as stories,... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Part I Hiding Places: Ice and snow; The sea and its shore; The long trip home. Part II Wasting Time: Travelling; Exchanging letters; 'Taking her time': 'The Moose' and other poems. Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jonathan Ellis is lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sheffield. He has published essays on various writers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt and Jeanette Winterson. His research interests include British and American poetry and the art of letter writing.
'A sensitively written and illuminating book that deepens our understanding of the life's ambivalences and achievements. Avoiding biographical reductivism, Ellis offers a fresh and often compelling reading of important topics such as the relationship between Bishop's experience of homelessness and her imagination of place.' Vivian Pollak, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
