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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... language " ( 103 ) . Before language , the infant feels a wholeness and boundlessness and union with the mother experienced as undifferentiated drives , but upon discerning the mother's absence , s / he becomes aware of lack and ...
... language in the final section of this chapter ; I wish , however , to enter first into an extended discussion of her God - invested language , so as to provide a background for the dilemma of pa- triarchal language , before presenting ...
... language . . . ” ( 126 ) . 10. Of course Whitman does not use the word “ signify ” as Lacan does , but he does grapple with his own ideas of language theory . Warren points out that " scholar- ship of the last ten years indicates 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 |