A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"

Gale, Cengage LearningLiterary Criticism
A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410346025

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's

Author: Cengage Learning Gale

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ISBN: 1375379445

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station"

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410345936

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Elizabeth Bishop

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Elizabeth Bishop

Author: Carole Doreski

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

ISBN: 9780195079661

Category: Science

Page: 201

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In poetry, the constraints of language and the tension between desire and possibility constitute the problematic in which the poem occurs. Approaching Elizabeth Bishop's work from the standpoint of this problematic, C.K. Doreski's illuminating study examines Bishop's rhetorical strategies and the way they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. Unlike other recent studies of Bishop, Doreski's does not concern itself primarily with her visual imagery, but rather deals with her poetry as a series of linguistic maneuverings designed to create the maximum illusion of representation while resisting the romantic devices of self-revelation and solipsistic narration. Though highly personal in nature, Bishop's works exhibit her success in averting, with formal and rhetorical dexterity, the temptations of sentiment. Doreski argues that Bishop takes advantage of the inadequacies of language, and with a postmodern sense of limitation explores the gaps and silences narrative must bridge with the mundane - the patently inadequate - creating an air of emotional intimacy without committing itself to the banality of full exposure. In essence, she asserts, the restraints of language shaped the tone, tensions, and even the topics of Bishop's poetry. This study finds the poems and stories mutually illuminating, but while moving back and forth among her various works, acknowledges the intelligent ordering of the volumes Bishop published in her lifetime. Persuasively arguing that restraint for Bishop is an essential element in the relationship she finds between language and life, this study shows how through her poems and stories she attempts to invent a language adequate to herperception.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Luminous Observations: Elizabeth Bishop

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Luminous Observations: Elizabeth Bishop

Author: Charles North

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781535849678

Category: Study Aids

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Luminous Observations: Elizabeth Bishop is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy

Victoria HarrisonLiterary Criticism
Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy

Author: Victoria Harrison

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521432030

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 276

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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy, a biographical and critical study of one of the great poets of this century, offers a fresh look at Bishop's published and unpublished writing over the course of her career. Informed by pragmatic, post-modern, and feminist theories, Victoria Harrison's study also makes extensive use of Bishop's archives, many pieces of which have never been discussed, to reveal the process of the poet's writing. Harrison explores Bishop's childhood memoirs, journals, letters, Brazilian travel prose, unfinished poems, and draft material, researching dates of undated material and reproducing Bishop's revisions, cancellations, and idiosyncratic spellings. Attentiveness to the detail of this archival writing gives Harrison a broad foundation for arguing that Bishop treats some of our largest concerns - family relationships, sexuality, war, and cultural differences - within poetry and prose that are intimate but not self-revelatory and daily but never ordinary. Elizabeth Bishop charges the moments of her writing with the desires, fears, and passions of her life.

A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Man-Moth"

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's

Author: Cengage Learning Gale

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ISBN: 1375392409

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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Man-Moth," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives

Sharon DiscorfanoEducation
Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives

Author: Sharon Discorfano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781475835373

Category: Education

Page: 156

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This is a practical guide for teachers of middle-school students that provides clear and fully-developed lesson plans and activities that use the teaching of poetry reading and writing as a vehicle for developing students’ own creativity and appreciation for diversity.

A Poet's High Argument

Laurel Snow CorelleChristianity and literature
A Poet's High Argument

Author: Laurel Snow Corelle

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

ISBN: 1570037620

Category: Christianity and literature

Page: 160

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"In this original study of Elizabeth Bishop's lifelong engagement with Christianity, Laurel Snow Corelle illuminates the ways in which Bishop's Protestant childhood and reading of Christian literature, coupled with her deep commitment to agnosticism, inform the works of this former poet laureate of the United States. Corelle sees in Bishop's writing a sophisticated and sustained interrogation of orthodoxy that exquisitely balances Bishop's religious upbringing with her agnostic stance and that has until now escaped thorough examination." "To make her case, Corelle immerses the reader in Bishop's works and world in order to convey the rigor, subtlety, and complexity of the poet's dialogue with historical Christianity and its literature. At the heart of that engagement are some compelling peculiarities. Bishop was a self-proclaimed nonbeliever; yet she grew up in two devout Protestant homes, and she studied Christian literature throughout her life. As a result some of the perspectives and prejudices voiced in her verse are transparently Protestant." "This study illustrates how she incorporated allusions to scripture and Protestant sacraments in a subversive critique of organized Christianity and how her appropriation of three traditional genres common to Christian literature - allegory, pastoral elegy, and spiritual autobiography - advanced her own poetic purposes."--BOOK JACKET.

Elizabeth Bishop

Kim FortunyLiterary Criticism
Elizabeth Bishop

Author: Kim Fortuny

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015060021758

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 144

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Kim Fortuny argues that Bishop's travel poetry reveals a political and social consciousness that, until fairly recently, has largely been seen as absent from her poetry and her life. Fortuny argues that questions of travel bring up questions of form in Bi