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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... critics produce dozens of analyses of Poe's fiction but almost none of his poetry ; and most essays are analyses of single poems , not attempts to view the poetry as a whole " ( 89-90 ) . Even French critics have sidestepped the poetry ...
... critics but particu- larly spooked many nineteenth - century readers , works powerfully as the mani- festation of the narrator's want - to - be , a want - to - be that prompts the desire for language.22 Pallas completes the critical ...
... critics be- lieve Whitman echoed Poe , “ it seems more likely that he intended to benefit from Poe's notoriety " ( 65 ) . 8. The sea whispers , but also “ lisps , " a word that is a little disturbing , and reso- nates yet further with ...
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 |