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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... male activities the female activ- ity of birthing . Such an investigation of parturitive metaphors can prove enor- mously useful , as has Stephanie Smith's Conceived by Liberty , a study of American birth as rendered by both male and ...
... male identity.20 The male gender of the bird is significant because the raven operates as the father in a number of important ways as evidenced by Poe's own emphasis . Li- terally , the raven embodies the conventional traits of a ...
... male author wouldn't want to try to appro- priate for himself the advantage of white ink , the mother's jouissance ? What male author wouldn't ambush a womb for his poetry ? The faint - hearted or the practical might not , for in 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 |