Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

by Anne Colwell

Book Overview

Examining the poet's view of the human body and issues of embodiment,
Colwell provides an accessible, close reading of Bishop's poetry.

Inscrutable Houses examines Elizabeth Bishop's
paradoxical relationship to the concept of embodiment as it evolves in
the poems of her four published books. Anne Colwell looks at how Bishop
uses metaphors of the body to express her powerful ambivalence about human
form, at how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308903
• ISBN13: 9780817308902
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"