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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... nature , flowers are among the first subjects of attention , as mere ob- jects of taste . They are conspicuous for ... nature as a whole over the workings of men when she states , “ no systems of man can change the laws and operations of ...
... nature , because through the usage of botanical and other nature images she can attempt to find her own means of expression that does not need to be filtered through patriar- chal naming but can stand on its own as erotic female ...
... nature poems to supplant the patronym , as , for exam- ple , with the butterfly “ That doesn't know its Name " ( Fr1559 ) , in which the act of being anonymous highlights the freedom of living beneath , or beyond , the aegis of ...
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 |