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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... patriarchal naming , the concentration on botany and the forces of nature in the last section of the sixth chapter ... patriarchal signification that can renew the poem and as such propose a maternal economy turning , and per- haps at ...
... patriarchal language : having to negotiate meaning , and meaninglessness , in a world a priori male , needing to use female language , and finding the task of trying to create it a vexed one . An astonishing perspicacity informs the ...
... patriarchal signifier finding reality because of the choric pulsions and possibilities of being struck from the float.4 Dickinson , in turn , grapples with the interplay of patriarchal signification and maternal gesture , in the poem ...
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 |