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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... raven ingress - the sounds of which may be the final gasps of the rhythmic , inarticulate chora giving over to the symbolic mode ( the raven actually emerges from the ... raven says with " Nevermore , " signaling entry 21 Poe's " The Raven ”
... raven's name ( 366 ) . So here we have it : the Name - of - the - Father is Nevermore . In Lacan's oedipal scenario ... Raven , " what better Name - of - the - Father could we find than Nevermore ? The raven owns the pure signifier our ...
... raven's declarations will follow . ( The original punctuation is retained in this and subsequent quotations to make ... raven has said : With such name as " Nevermore . ” ( 367 ) The narrator makes a similar gesture at the end of stanza ...
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 |