Overview
- Brings together leading Bishop scholars
- Explores a central yet understudied aspect of Bishop’s poetry
- Contributes to discourse on the links between music and poetry
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature (PASTMULI)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop’s writing. This collection considers Bishop’s reworking of metrical and rhythmic forms of poetry; the increasing presence of prosaic utterances into speech-soundscapes; how musical poetry intones new modes of thinking through aural vision; how Bishop transforms traditionally distasteful tones of violence, banality, and commerce into innovative poetry; how her diverse, lifelong musical education (North American, European, Brazilian) affects her work; and also how her diverse musical settings have inspired global contemporary composers. The essays flesh out the missing elements of music, sound, and voice in previous research that are crucial to understanding how Bishop’s writing continues to dazzle readers and inspire artists in surprising ways.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Angus Cleghorn is Professor of English and Liberal Studies at Seneca College, Canada. He has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014), Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st-Century: Reading the New Editions (2012), authored Wallace Stevens’ Poetics: The Neglected Rhetoric (2000), and published numerous essays on Stevens and Bishop.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature
Editors: Angus Cleghorn
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33180-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33179-5Published: 11 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33182-5Published: 11 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33180-1Published: 28 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-5133
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 121
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Music