Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive /
Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive /
edited by Bethany Hicok.
- 1 online resource: illustrations, facsimiles (some color)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction / Queer archive. "Too shy to stop" : Elizabeth Bishop and the scene of reading / Elizabeth Bishop's sanity : childhood trauma, psychoanalysis, and sentimentality / Elizabeth Bishop's perspectives on marriage / "Keeping up a silent conversation" : recovering a queer Bishop through her intimate correspondence with Alice Methfessel / Dear Elizabeth, dear May : reappraising the Bishop/Swenson correspondence / Odd job : Elizabeth Bishop's 'The fairy toll-taker" / Travels : scale, location, architecture, archive. Elizabeth Bishop and race in the archive / "I miss all that bright, detailed flatness" : Elizabeth Bishop in Brevard / "All the untidy activity" : travel & the picturesque in Elizabeth Bishop's writings / The burglar of the tower of Babel : Elizabeth Bishop, architecture, translation, archive / Elizabeth Bishop's geopoetics / Work in progress. Archival aviary : Elizabeth Bishop and drama / Archival animals : polyphonic movement in Elizabeth Bishop's drafts / "Huge crowd pleased by new models" : Elizabeth Bishop's Cuttyhunk notebook as multimodal and multimedia artifact / The matter of Elizabeth Bishop's professionalism / Bethany Hicok -- Heather Treseler ; Richard Flynn ; Jeffrey Westover ; Alyse Knorr ; David Hoak ; John Emil Vincent -- Marvin Campbell ; Charla Allyn Hughes ; Yaël Schlick ; Douglas Basford ; Sarah Giragosian -- Andrew Walker ; Heather Bozant Witcher ; Laura Sloan Patterson ; Claire Seiler. Part I. Part II. Part III.
Open Access
"In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection--more than 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, notebooks, memorabilia, artwork, hundreds of letters to major poets and writers, and thousands of books--now housed at Vassar College. Informed by archival theory and practice, as well as a deep appreciation of Bishop's poetics, the collection charts new territory for teaching and reading American poetry at the intersection of the institutional archive, literary study, the liberal arts college, and the digital humanities. The fifteen essays in this collection use this archive as a subject, and, for the first time, argue for the critical importance of working with and describing original documents in order to understand the relationship between this most archival of poets and her own archive. This collection features a unique set of interdisciplinary scholars, archivists, translators, and poets, who approach the archive collaboratively and from multiple perspectives. The contributions explore remarkable new acquisitions, such as Bishop's letters to her psychoanalyst, one of the most detailed psychosexual memoirs of any twentieth century poet and the exuberant correspondence with her final partner, Alice Methfessel, an important series of queer love letters of the 20th century. Lever Press's digital environment allows the contributors to present some of the visual experience of the archive, such as Bishop's extraordinary "multi-medial" and "multimodal" notebooks, in order to reveal aspects of the poet's complex composition process"--Publisher's description
9781643150123
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 --Research.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 --Archives.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 --Criticism and interpretation.
Research.
Poets, American--Archival resources.
Archival resources.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Fonds d'archives--New York (État)--Poughkeepsie.
Poetes americains--Fonds d'archives.--20e siecle
Archival resources--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Poets, American--Archival resources.--20th century
New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Essais.
Critiques litteraires.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Archives.
essays.
Essay
Electronic books.
Introduction / Queer archive. "Too shy to stop" : Elizabeth Bishop and the scene of reading / Elizabeth Bishop's sanity : childhood trauma, psychoanalysis, and sentimentality / Elizabeth Bishop's perspectives on marriage / "Keeping up a silent conversation" : recovering a queer Bishop through her intimate correspondence with Alice Methfessel / Dear Elizabeth, dear May : reappraising the Bishop/Swenson correspondence / Odd job : Elizabeth Bishop's 'The fairy toll-taker" / Travels : scale, location, architecture, archive. Elizabeth Bishop and race in the archive / "I miss all that bright, detailed flatness" : Elizabeth Bishop in Brevard / "All the untidy activity" : travel & the picturesque in Elizabeth Bishop's writings / The burglar of the tower of Babel : Elizabeth Bishop, architecture, translation, archive / Elizabeth Bishop's geopoetics / Work in progress. Archival aviary : Elizabeth Bishop and drama / Archival animals : polyphonic movement in Elizabeth Bishop's drafts / "Huge crowd pleased by new models" : Elizabeth Bishop's Cuttyhunk notebook as multimodal and multimedia artifact / The matter of Elizabeth Bishop's professionalism / Bethany Hicok -- Heather Treseler ; Richard Flynn ; Jeffrey Westover ; Alyse Knorr ; David Hoak ; John Emil Vincent -- Marvin Campbell ; Charla Allyn Hughes ; Yaël Schlick ; Douglas Basford ; Sarah Giragosian -- Andrew Walker ; Heather Bozant Witcher ; Laura Sloan Patterson ; Claire Seiler. Part I. Part II. Part III.
Open Access
"In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection--more than 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, notebooks, memorabilia, artwork, hundreds of letters to major poets and writers, and thousands of books--now housed at Vassar College. Informed by archival theory and practice, as well as a deep appreciation of Bishop's poetics, the collection charts new territory for teaching and reading American poetry at the intersection of the institutional archive, literary study, the liberal arts college, and the digital humanities. The fifteen essays in this collection use this archive as a subject, and, for the first time, argue for the critical importance of working with and describing original documents in order to understand the relationship between this most archival of poets and her own archive. This collection features a unique set of interdisciplinary scholars, archivists, translators, and poets, who approach the archive collaboratively and from multiple perspectives. The contributions explore remarkable new acquisitions, such as Bishop's letters to her psychoanalyst, one of the most detailed psychosexual memoirs of any twentieth century poet and the exuberant correspondence with her final partner, Alice Methfessel, an important series of queer love letters of the 20th century. Lever Press's digital environment allows the contributors to present some of the visual experience of the archive, such as Bishop's extraordinary "multi-medial" and "multimodal" notebooks, in order to reveal aspects of the poet's complex composition process"--Publisher's description
9781643150123
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 --Research.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 --Archives.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 --Criticism and interpretation.
Research.
Poets, American--Archival resources.
Archival resources.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Fonds d'archives--New York (État)--Poughkeepsie.
Poetes americains--Fonds d'archives.--20e siecle
Archival resources--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Poets, American--Archival resources.--20th century
New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Essais.
Critiques litteraires.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Archives.
essays.
Essay
Electronic books.