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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... Whitman probably was both writer and subject of the report on Poe ; Dickinson almost certainly had her own ideas on Whitman . All three of these writers were deferred and often self - deferring in their century , for reasons of their ...
... Whitman remain far from numerous and are greatly needed in offering a full range of Whitman scholarship . Pollak , notably , has contributed fine observations about Whitman's women as mothers and examines " both Whitman's feminism and ...
... Whitman's speaker's cry of " Demon or bird ! " to the cry of Poe's speaker , " bird or fiend " and also remarks that a sequence of Whitman's poem has “ a Poesque ring ” ( 173 ) . At times the speaker of " Out of the Cradle , ” as in ...
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 |