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ELIZABETH BISHOP: THE RESTRAINTS OF LANGUAGE - Couverture rigide

Doreski, C-K

 
9780195079661: ELIZABETH BISHOP: THE RESTRAINTS OF LANGUAGE
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195079663 ISBN 13 : 9780195079661
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Doreski's book examines Elizabeth VBishop's rhetorical strategies as they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. It deals with her poetic not as a visual or geographical one, but as a series of linguistic stratgegies designed to create the maximum illusion of representation whilst resisting the romantic devices of self-revelation and solipsistic narration. Her poetry emphasizes control over language, voice and personality, yet becomes autobiographical in a more profound way than has usually been assumed. Unlike other recent studies of Bishop, this concerns itself less with her visual imagery than with her poetic, which is Emersonian and Worsworthian, yet critiques the romantic use of transcendence and epiphany. Bishop takes advantage of the inadequacies of language, and with a post-modern sense of limitation explores silences and bridges them with the mundane - thus leaving an air of emotional intimacy without committing itself to the banality of full exposure. Finding the poems and stories mutually illuminating, this study moves back and forth among Bishop's works, but acknowledges the intelligent ordering of the volumes Bishop published in her lifetime.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Doreski's book examines Elizabeth VBishop's rhetorical strategies as they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. It deals with her poetic not as a visual or geographical one, but as a series of linguistic stratgegies designed to create the maximum illusion of representation whilst resisting the romantic devices of self-revelation and solipsistic narration. Her poetry emphasizes control over language, voice and personality, yet becomes autobiographical in a more profound way than has usually been assumed. Unlike other recent studies of Bishop, this concerns itself less with her visual imagery than with her poetic, which is Emersonian and Worsworthian, yet critiques the romantic use of transcendence and epiphany. Bishop takes advantage of the inadequacies of language, and with a post-modern sense of limitation explores silences and bridges them with the mundane - thus leaving an air of emotional intimacy without committing itself to the banality of full exposure. Finding the poems and stories mutually illuminating, this study moves back and forth among Bishop's works, but acknowledges the intelligent ordering of the volumes Bishop published in her lifetime.

Revue de presse

In illuminating the poetry, which she accomplishes with critical mastery, she has also cracked the imagistic and linguistic codes that often resist interpretation when we come to the work and lives of very fine poets....Her book offers a comprehensive and celebratory initiation. (Harvard Review)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195079663
ISBN 13 
9780195079661
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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