Elizabeth Bishop
Subtitle: rebel "in shades and shadows"
By: Xiaojing Zhou.
Series: Studies in modern poetry ;; v. 11
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Poetics -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Elizabeth Bishop, one of the most admired American poets of the twentieth century, occupies a unique place in American poetry. Bishop's poems have inspired poets of various schools and intrigued critics, who find her work difficult to categorize. This study explores the theoretical grounds and enabling conditions for Bishop's distinct poetry, drawing from Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism and Bishop's own artistic theories elaborated in her prose, notebooks, and letters.

Focusing on Bishop's continuous efforts to test the limits of poetic forms, it sheds new light on the artistic merits and significance of Bishop's oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-195) and index.