Author(s)

Rui Luo ¹, Chen Chen ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Foreign Languages, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, Henan, China
² Faculty of International Studies, Henan Normal University, Kaifeng, Henan, China

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ABSTRACT

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is a prominent representative of the middle-generation poets after modernism and before post-modernism in America. She is neither a modernist poet nor a confessional poet. Her reticent poetic style sometimes shows certain postmodern features. Open form, rich imagination, combined fragments, and free images, create the unique postmodernity in Bishop's poetry, which put forward a great challenge to readers' thinking habits. Analyzing the postmodern elements in her poetry can help to better understand its openness, inclusiveness, and heterogeneous pluralism which expect readers to participate.

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Rui Luo, Chen Chen, Postmodernity in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 5-8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050402.

REFERENCES

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[3] Lyota, Jean-Francois. La Condition Postmoderne Rapport sur le Savoir. Trans. Dao Zi. Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1996. 
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[7] Fountain, Gray & Peter Brazeau, eds. Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

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