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...Nick Halpern Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description , by Pickard Zachariah , McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2009 . 212 pages. A Poet’s High Argument: Elizabeth Bishop and Christianity , by Corelle Laurel Snow , University of South Carolina Press , 2008 . 139 pages...

... Cosmopolitanism does much to add to our understanding of how modernist innovations merge with transnational imaginings. Perhaps ironically, this is particularly true in the chapters on Elizabeth Bowen’s writing, which was long overlooked or downplayed in discussions of Irish modernism due to the pervasive sense...

...Kathryn Van Wert This essay explores Elizabeth Bishop’s use of war and imperialism to demonstrate the power—and inherently political nature—of poetic discourse. In her rarely discussed “Little Exercise” (1946), a poem Bishop wrote while living near a military base in Key West, Florida...

...Charles Andrews Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson: A Biography , by Maslen Elizabeth . Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 556 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 After decades of neglect, at best making cameo appearances in lists of “little-read writers...

...Claire Seiler Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature , by Outka Elizabeth . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . 326 pages. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 Elizabeth Outka’s new book was published in October 2019. The timing has since...

...Sharon Kunde “The ‘Nature’ of American Literature” explores how John Crowe Ransom and his less-studied contemporary Elizabeth Madox Roberts advanced a theory of literary objects that emerged from nature itself. This theory formed the basis of Ransom’s bid, in “Criticism, Inc.,” for disciplinary...

...Eric Strand Although our recovery of Elizabeth Bishop’s politics has involved seeing her as a resistant “outsider,” this essay argues that she was at her most challenging as an inhabitant of poetic institutions. Exemplifying the vexed status of the Depression-era writer after the crash...

...Susannah L. Hollister 2012 Elizabeth Bishop’s Geographic Feeling Elizabeth Bishop’s Geographic Feeling Susannah L. Hollister In one entry of W. H. Auden’s “Journal of an Airman,” the airman calculates the space that an individual life might cover: “A man occupies about 6 ft...

...Maren Linett © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 “Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge,and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen “Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen Maren Linett In What is Posthumanism?, Cary Wolfe enlists Temple...

...Laci Mattison This essay reads Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls (1963) alongside recent theorists of “thingness,” namely, Bill Brown and Jane Bennett. While Bowen’s things intersect with the social terrain, they also simultaneously and paradoxically destabilize that very reality...

...Jeannie Im The role of landscape in Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish novels has been overshadowed by the critical emphasis on her representations of the Anglo-Irish big house. In contrast to this critical trend, this article argues that Bowen’s Irish landscapes stage questions of national identity...

...Luke Carson Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 w John Ashbery s Elizabeth Bishop Luke Carson J o h n Ashbery s poetry is conversational. While his pronouns are notori­ ously slippery, readers learn to expect a “you” to be addressed even in the most unexpected places, so...

...Susan McCabe Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Survival of the Queerly Fit: Darwin, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop Survival of the Queerly Fit: Darwin, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop Susan McCabe Darwin taught us that animals (like literary texts) are cultural...

...Nels C. Pearson Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Nels C. Pearson Elizabeth Bowen and the New Cosmopolitanism Nels C. Pearson The weight of being herself fell on her like a clock striking. She saw the clothes she would put on to go home in hanging over...

...Heather Cass White Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI Elizabeth Bishop s Calling Heather Cass White Call evidently marks a distance. Unlike a whisper or a murmur, or even plain speaking, it puts space between the calling one and the called not merely to emphasize...

...Luke Carson Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 James Merrill’s Manners and Elizabeth Bishop’s Dismay Luke Carson -/Alison Lurie’s impression of James Merrill on first meeting him was that he “seemed both coolly detached and awkwardly self-conscious. He appeared to have read...

...Zachariah Pickard Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 BAI Natural History and Epiphany: Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin Letter Zachariah Pickard riting in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and, particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new...

...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Timothy Materer Life and the memory of it so compressed they turned into each other —Elizabeth Bishop (Poems 177) Jam es...

...Peggy Samuels Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 w Verse as Deep Surface: Elizabeth Bishop’s New Poetics, 1938—39 Peggy Samuels I n the years that I have been reading Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and the scholarship that has grown up around it, two remarks stand out as almost...

...Susan Rosenbaum Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments , edited and annotated by Quinn Alice , New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2006 . 367 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 Collecting Elizabeth Bishop...