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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... want - to - be " ( " manque - à - être " ) ; because the child wants to be one with the mother , s / he knows a " want of being " ( Muller and Richardson , Lacan 22 ) . The moment of want - to - be , the desire for the absent mother ...
... want - to - be — a want - to - be that pervades the poem through profound im- ages of lack , with the recognition of absence ... wants Lenore near him , preferably in an uncertain alive / dead state , so that his despair can be prolonged ...
... want to be " as good as women , " because women , especially mothers , are so powerful . I am the poet of the woman ... wants to steep his voice in it , transforming himself into a parturient mother . Cixous offers reasons for the power ...
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 |