In Worcester, Massachusetts

Essays on Elizabeth Bishop, from the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI

• Author(s): Laura Jehn Menides, Angela G. Dorenkamp,
• Publisher: P. Lang
• Pages: 360
• ISBN_10: 082044149X
  ISBN_13: 9780820441498
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / American / General ,

Description:... «In Worcester, Massachusetts» Essays on Elizabeth Bishop reflects the growing interest in the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The thirty-four contributors to the volume - scholars, creative writers, poets, translators, and biographers - offer essays on a fascinating array of topics: Bishop's crucial and troubled relationship with her birthplace, Worcester, Massachusetts; Bishop as translator and translated; her poetics, travels, and sexual and racial politics; her paintings; her manuscripts and methods of composition; and her place in the canon of American literature.