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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... fact , understands signifiers as standing not for signifieds but for other signifiers . These signifiers for signifi- ers form a chain , the “ rings of a necklace that is a ring in another necklace made of rings ” ( 153 ) . The fact ...
... fact that the manuscript page ends with the first line of the fourth stanza adds magnitude to a reading that understands the poem as partially depicting the crisis of the woman attempting to negotiate the consequences of " cheating ...
... fact , the poem stands as remarkable for its negations : no , missed , not , no , nor , un- , no , not , which establish a negative currency that militates against the hope for congruency in signification . Furthermore , the fascicle ...
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 |