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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... sexual choices , awareness of the body , and subversion of patriarchal lan- guage . Each poet operates in unconventional ways — ways seen more clearly from the context of the poets ' originating century , before canonization in the ...
... sexual attitudes during the nineteenth century : the bitterness of the century's sexual debates , the antistructural , at times almost whimsical character of some forms of nineteenth - century experimentation " ( 316 ) . The three poets ...
... sexual self ( " eye " ) appears in phallic metonymy ( and is , hence , " knowing " in the sexual sense ) ; the self of the voice constitutes the eye ( “ I ” ) as speaking voice ; the self that is aware of his existence recognizes in 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 |