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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... letter in the short story Lacan thought worthy of such concentrated attention — a connection that strengthens the resonance between nineteenth - century author and postmodern theorist . The " Nevermore " be- haves like the purloined letter ...
... letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson , in some ways a typical love letter that asserts with urgency that only the two lovers can understand each other . At the same time , however , this passionate letter decries language , declaring that ...
... letters : Letter 94 , 123 ; Letter 260 , 53 ; Letter 303 , 136 n.6 ; Letter 404 , 1 , 135 nn.1 , 2 ; Let- ter 649 , 1 , 135 n.1 Dickinson , Emily , poems : " An altered look about the hills- ” ( Fr90 ) , 147-48 n.31 ; “ Bloom opon 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 |