Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cleghorn, Angus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
• Subjects: Poetry.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Music.; Poetry and Poetics.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

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;...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction.
• 2. "I am in Need of Music": Elizabeth Bishop and the Energies of Sound and Song
• 3. Music of the Sea: Elizabeth Bishop and Symbolist Poetics
• 4. The Rhythm of Syntax in Elizabeth Bishop's "At the Fishhouses"
• 5. "Hearing Things": Voice and Rhyme in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
• 6. Causes for Excess: Elizabeth Bishop's Eighty-Eight Exclamations
• 7. 'A Very Important Violence of Tone': Bishop's 'Roosters' and Other Poems
• 8. "Spontaneity occurs in a good attack": Voice Control in Late Bishop
• 9. Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian Popular Music: From Anonymous Sambas to Contemporary Composers
• 10. 'In Need of Music': Musical Settings of Elizabeth Bishop.