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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... provides her with an erotic feminine vocabulary and allows a basis for developing a fresh kind of female naming . Each of these sciences provides a cultural prototype for the language constructs of the three writers . For instance , in ...
... provides the grist for the investigation in this project . His poetry , the above handful of insightful re- views aside , has gone unnoticed at the worst and been underrated at the best . In a recent overview Thorpe notices the drought ...
... provides only one of them . In Choosing Not Choosing Sharon Cameron , one of the most eloquent exponents of reading ... provide a viable way of reading Dickinson , then we must accept that she had at least as much control over 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 |