Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 169 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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... telling as it descries the possibilities of signification at the brink . There is " No Chatter - here - no tea ... tell “ but a syllable . ” 29 Dickinson displays herein the disintegration of language at the boundary of death . The ...
... tell./ Of bumble - bees and other nations / The grass is full " ( Fr1764 ) . Not only one na- tion but many nations thrive here , though it is useless to tell the names because they are untellable in patriarchal language . A world of ...
... tell us the syllable , though ; perhaps it is not even a word ; perhaps it is preverbal babble , perhaps postverbal babble . The syllable the dying speak may be the word " tea , " which could follow as a syntactical consequence 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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