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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... appear : the bird's name ; the bird's status as guest , with perhaps a hint that he has overstayed his welcome ; the bird's ab- sence ; a one - word language ... appears : Quoth the Raven , " Nevermore . " ( 366 26 Word , Birth , and Culture.
... appears " to accept that phallic subjects alone , only men , can re - present the unrepresented , subversive underside of the chora and the semiotic " ( Grosz 164 ) . Problematically , women , it seems , can undergo maternal jouissance ...
... appears , for example , as “ the beautiful curious liquid " in one of Whitman's earliest po- ems , the 1855 " There Was a Child Went Forth . " In this poem , Whitman pro- vides a version of the float that incorporates a detailed ...
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 |