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Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss

Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss

McCabe, Susan

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0271025611
ISBN13: 9780271025612
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 1994
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work--poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material--to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity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 never represents an escape into perfected forms, but instead calls attention to the processes of language that construct identity. McCabe emphasizes how personal experience is deeply enmeshed with Bishop's poetics. Bishop's project returns to her early losses--the death of her father and her mother's madness--and uses them to disclose the instability of the concepts of self or place through a rhetoric of indeterminacy and uncertainty. Although Bishop has recently begun to receive the critical attention she deserves, this book uniquely brings loss to the foreground in connection with identity, gender, and the fashioning of a feminist poetics.

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