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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... Leaves of Grass . Whitman revised old material to bring it in line with the new in successive editions of Leaves of Grass , as did Poe in new editions of his poetry " ( 152 ) . Dickinson's fascicle poems with variant word choices demon ...
... leaves the leaves of October as well as the leaves of his text . No sooner does he signify his beloved than he begins to change her from life to written life , so that what he has left is the page . Though he claims twice in the final ...
... Leaves of Grass . Cambridge , MA : Harvard UP , 1991 . Mossberg , Barbara Antonina Clarke . Emily Dickinson : When a Writer Is a Daughter . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1982 . Muller , John P. , and William J. Richardson . Lacan and ...
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 |