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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... possibilities that can under- mine patriarchal discourse . Robbie Pfeufer Kahn , in Bearing Meaning , asserts that ... possibility of a feminine poetics , occluded by the linear representation of language but opening out in its ...
... possibilities , as the interpretive constructions of presence and disappearance exemplify . " Nevermore " itself forms an oxymoron , simultaneously indicating both ab- sence and desire - an antithetical combination of terms that others ...
... possibility of forgetting , or the difficulty of separating from the mother ; the indeterminacy of truth , or the uncertainty that suffering will ever cease ; life ( or not ) after death , or love ( or not ) after death , or 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 |