Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 169 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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... example with the phrase , " suppressed menses ” ) . Dickinson chose a variety of euphemisms for the process of gesta- tion , but one of her major guises draws , aptly enough , upon the natural world . Consider , for example , the ...
... example , Robert K. Martin on rethinking his views on Whit- man's homosexuality in “ Whitman and the Politics of Identity . ” Some of the major critics discussing Dickinson's homoeroticism or homosexuality are Rebecca Patterson , Lilian ...
... example , notices the similarity of 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 ...
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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