| «Dazzling Dialectics»: Elizabeth Bishop's Resonating Feminist Reality Contributor(s): Baker, Peter Nicholas (Editor), Shigley, Sally Bishop (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820433535 ISBN-13: 9780820433530 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 96008413 |
| Series: Studies in Modern Poetry |
| Physical Information: 181 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although Elizabeth Bishop is often viewed as an apolitical, purely descriptive poet, her poems are much more rhetorical than they initially seem. Bishop armed her poems with paradox, oxymorons, and strangely androgynous speakers in order to invite the reader to question his or her own ideas about poetry, feminism and gender politics. Starting literally with the first poem in her first book, Bishop's work asks the reader to question not only their casual reading habits, but also the very ability of language to represent reality - a very deconstructive move for a poet who eschewed literary movements and manifestoes. |