Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 184 pages Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets address language, birth, and scientific aspects of culture in ways that frame new perceptions of sex roles. Exacerbating 19th-century American expectations for sexually-constructed experience, they employ tactics that disrupt patriarchal signification. The first book to group these three poets together, this volume examines the daring language experiments in which they engage. It explores their use of pseduoscientific and scientific studies of alchemy, hydropathy, and botany to inform their understanding of language and birth and to discover expressions that challenge expectations for 19th-century poetry. |
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... Lacan found necessary to the Fort ! Da ! game . One might go so far as to say that the quintes- sential site of " The Raven " is the Lacanian point of want - to - be , where a human being , through desire , stands poised to enter the ...
... Lacan's lights , the child's want - to - be arises as the wanting to be the mother's phallus , which is of course what she lacks ( 337 ) . Lacan asserts that the phallus is " the signifier par excel- lence " of desire ( Muller and ...
... Lacan imagines would be pretty good , Whitman images in his manifold parturitive figures , borrowing supplementary jouissance for Lacanian - type reasons : he wants to push language into new signification , as alternative to the ...
Contents
Poes The Raven and Gestative Signification | 11 |
Whitmans Song of Myself and Gestative Signification | 31 |
Dickinsons Fascicle TwentyEight and Gestative Signification | 45 |
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Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson Daneen Wardrop No preview available - 2002 |