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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... rhythmic drives , a mode precursive to language , and allied with the rhythms of poetry . The semiotic drives distin- guish the chora , which " precedes and underlies figuration and thus specularization , and is analogous only to vocal ...
... rhythmic , laving the boy's body . The word of the sea - mother exists as touch , the texture of water , a mo- tion . In fact , the speaker needs both the utterance of the bird and the sea to make his own songs , both the rhythms of the ...
... rhythms vivi- fied in the visual windrows , the " Tufts of straw , sands , fragments . " These items , far from disparaging things to claim , indicate the waves of rhythm fun- damental to the making of poetry , and they derive from 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 |