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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... effect of the repetition , which informs our initial contact with “ The Raven " and is perhaps even the first thing ... effects . Much fun has been made , at Poe's expense , of such effects here and in the similarly ca- cophonous " The ...
... effect both from its delayed entry and from the contrast of its sound with the sounds in the previous verses . The ... effects Poe creates he must also marvel simply at the existence of discourse it- self . That " Nevermore " stands as a ...
... effect on which I had been depending — that is to say , the effect of the variation of application . I saw that I could make the first query propounded by the lover — the first query to which the Ra- ven should reply " Nevermore " -that ...
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 |