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Chapter 15 - Modernism

from Part III - Literary Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2021

By
Philip McGowan
Edited by
Angus Cleghorn  and
Jonathan Ellis
Angus Cleghorn
Affiliation:
Seneca College, Canada
Jonathan Ellis
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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This chapter places Elizabeth Bishop’s work within the cross currents of the aesthetic and poetic movements that constituted modernism. While it might be expected that Bishop and her contemporaries such as Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and Robert Lowell would form part of the generation that would inherit the sensibilities of modernism, what quickly becomes clear, particularly in relation to Bishop, is both her reticence at being identified with any one particular school or movement and her agility in moving between the definitions produced by, and for, modernism. In part her singular position on the peripheries of modernism was a self-selected one, Bishop is happier to stand apart from the categorizing and theorizing impulses of her time. In addition, the fact that she was a gay woman

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modernismMooreStevensEliotPoundcummingsBrazilmodernismoKleeNeruda
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Elizabeth Bishop in Context , pp. 174 - 185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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