International Journal of Geographical and Spatial Studies
JGSS Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp. 94-105.
Print ISSN: 3105-1294; Online ISSN: 3105-1308
Journal homepage: https://www.gssjournal.com
DOI：https://doi.org/10.64058/JGSS.26.1.09
地理诗学中的阈限空间：伊丽莎白·毕晓普诗歌中的海湾书写与家园重构
袁 丽（YUAN Li）, 雷艳妮（LEI Yanni）
摘要:伊丽莎白·毕晓普作为20世纪美国最重要的诗人之一，其诗歌创作因其漂泊的人生轨迹而呈现出独特的地理空间意识。她在诗歌中反复书写半岛、海峡、陆岬、港湾和码头等“海湾地带”，这些水陆交界的空间形态既指向停泊与包裹，也保留了通向外部的开放性，因而构成了具有过渡特征的“阈限空间”。本文在地理诗学视域下，以莫雷蒂提出的“空间中的文学”与“文学中的空间”为基础，并以梅新林提出的“双层空间”概念为分析框架，同时结合毕晓普以时间和体验的非同时性为特点的“体验-时间”理论，考察海湾意象如何在不断回返与持续重写中被诗性激活，并由此形成兼具流动性与归属感的诗学空间。毕晓普的海湾书写不仅是地理实践的诗性记录，更是一种将客观地理空间转化为内在经验场域的实践过程，在时间延宕与记忆回返中推进身份定位与家园重构。
关键词：伊丽莎白·毕晓普；地理诗学；阈限空间；海湾书写；家园重构
作者简介：袁丽，中山大学外国语学院博士研究生，研究方向为英诗与诗论，电邮为yuanli9@mail2.sysu.edu.cn；雷艳妮（通讯作者），中山大学外国语学院副教授、博士生导师，博士后合作导师，研究方向为英诗与诗论,小说和戏剧研究，以及文学文化理论研究，电邮为leiyanni@mail.sysu.edu.cn。
Title: Liminal Spaces in Geo-poetics: Bay Writing and Home Reconstruction in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry
Abstract: Elizabeth Bishop, one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, developed a distinctive sense of geographical space in her poetry in response to a wandering life. In her works, she repeatedly depicts a “bay zone” including peninsulas, straits, promontories, bights, and wharves. Situated at the interface between the land and the sea, these spatial forms suggest anchorage and enclosure while still retaining an openness to the outside world, thus functioning as transitional liminal spaces. From the perspective of geo-poetics, this article draws on Franco Moretti’s distinction between “literature in space” and “space in literature” and adopts MEI Xinlin’s dual space conception as its analytical framework. Meanwhile, based on Bishop’s theory of “experience-time”, which emphasizes the non-simultaneity of time and experience, it examines how bay imagery is poetically activated through repeated returns and continual rewritings. As a result, it constructs a poetics of space that holds both a sense of fluidity and belonging. Bishop’s bay writing is not merely a poetic record of geographical practice, but also a process that transforms objective geographical space into an inner experiential field, advancing identity positioning and home reconstruction through temporal delay and the return of memory.
Keywords: Elizabeth Bishop; geo-poetics; liminal spaces; bay writing; home reconstruction
Author Biographies: YUAN Li, a Ph.D. candidate at Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, with the research direction of English Poetry and Poetics (Email: yuanli9@mail2.sysu.edu.cn). LEI Yanni (corresponding author) is an Associate Professor, supervisor for Ph.D. candidates, and cooperative supervisor for postdoctoral studies at Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University. Her main research interests include English Poetry and Poetics, Novel and Drama Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory Studies (Email: leiyanni@mail.sysu.edu.cn).
Received: 03 Nov 2025 / Revised: 16 Apr 2026 / Accepted: 24 Apr 2026 / Published online: 30 May 2026 / Print published: 30 Jun 2026.
