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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... voice , the voice of the mother man . Whitman in- volved himself in a “ language experiment " ( as he called Leaves of Grass ) de- pendent upon the figuration of parturition . The act of parturition is concealed from his audience ...
... voices by mediating them through his mother's body , finally to find his one voice . Whitman , the mother man , pushes voice through himself in order to clarify and transfigure - to find articulation in verse . sym- Section twenty ...
... voice . Whitman exhibits enormous bravery — and bravura — in attempting to find a gender - crossed voice . Of course the bravura is nothing new for Whitman , but his bravery in taking on the mother role has not been sufficiently recog ...
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 |