Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender

by Marilyn May Lombardi

Book Overview

This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in the field- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's vision and the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challenges our assumptions about placement and orientation. These scholars argue that Bishop's "sense of difference" as an orphan, a woman artist, and a lesbian plays a significant role in the questioning of aesthetic, ethical, and sexual boundaries that is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914450
• ISBN13: 9780813914459
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher