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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... final climac- tic lines of " Song of Myself . " His debouching derives from his ability to " constitut [ e ] a subjectivity that splits apart without regret , ” as Cixous and Clement describe it : How could the woman [ who has given ...
... final decisions about copying , editing , layout , font , ordering , binding , and even paper stock . Accordingly , the physical facts of the fascicle remain rele- vant to a consideration of Dickinson's art as Dickinson herself oversaw ...
... final stanza of “ He gave away his Life— , ” which offers the somewhat riddling , if commonplace , theme that Christ dies so that he can live in his followers . Christ grows within his followers by a gradual or common process , the word ...
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 |