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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... parturition . The act of parturition is concealed from his audience because of its inability or unwillingness to perceive his tak- ing on the mother role ; he can come away “ as if nothing had happened ! " be- cause the threshold of the ...
... parturition and hence motherhood over other female experience . It does explore the possibilities for language within the figuration and signification of parturition . To say that the phallus is the privileged signifier is to admit the ...
... parturition allowed them to bypass the sometimes heavyhanded minis- trations of allopathic physicians , and the sometimes amateurish attentions of the new male midwives , whose services had begun in the middle of the nine- teenth ...
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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