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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... seems , can undergo maternal jouissance but not speak of it . sym- Kristeva's chora , a function of the semiotic mode that exists before the bolic , positions a realm of pulsions and rhythmic drives , a mode precursive to language , and ...
... seems to render the world mutable ; after reading passionate po- etry , in the series of transformations immediately following the mention of al- chemy , a kind of transmutation of emotional and other states occurs , in which naivete ...
... seem to speak directly to a poet concerned with lan- guage and the feminine . Lincoln's text characterizes the natural ... seems peculiarly adapted to females ; the objects of its investigation are beautiful and delicate ; its pursuits ...
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 |