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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... reading Dickinson by the fascicle rather than by the poem , and identifying the importance of an image through the repetition of a word such as " pod " provides only one of them . In Choosing Not Choosing Sharon Cameron , one of the ...
... reader according to that reader's capacity to register the reading ; such a text is gauged " To our specific strength- " ( Fr1715 ) . The poem acknowledges the “ consent of Language , " so that language exists here as a being in itself ...
... reader nearby to listen to him , but our presence is important because he reveals to us his secret : The gay wall of ... reading of it necessitates our rec- ognition of ourselves as readers of Poe . Later in the poem , Poe may address ...
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 |