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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... female body . As critics have noted , these poets ' collections of works cannot be disentan- gled from questions of the body.11 The importance to these nine- teenth - century poets of the female body in particular forms a primary ...
... female do not always promote parity ) ; Dickinson's recognition is wry , and also sometimes jouissant . Poe registers his recognition of the feminine by displacement of female to female signifier . Whitman registers his in liquid and ...
... female aspect to ecstasy . 15. Harold Bloom identifies apophrades in his Anxiety of Influence , which he calls ... female body image that gives further resonance to the idea that eider names are female nonnames . Eider names , the ...
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 |