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Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson: Contributions to the Study of American Literature

Autor Daneen Wardrop
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2002 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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.The rising awareness of women's rights, which concurred with the antebellum call for a new American literature, also informed the emerging sense of the feminine that prompts the poets to use the maternal in their poetry. While they do not address the woman question of the 19th century in concrete ways, they nonetheless relied upon the female experience of birthing to create a new relationship with language and to question the nature of signification.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313322341
ISBN-10: 0313322341
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions to the Study of American Literature

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

DANEEN WARDROP is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge (1996), and her articles have appeared in such journals as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, ESQ, African American Review, and The Emily Dickinson Journal.

Cuprins

IntroductionPoe's "The Raven" and Gestative SignificationWhitman's "Song of Myself" and Gestative SignificationDickinson's Fascicle Twenty-Eight and Gestative SignificationWord, Birth, and Poe's AlchemyWord, Birth, and Whitman's Water CureWord, Birth, and Dickinson's Botany TextsConclusion: Reading Poetry from One Century to AnotherSelected BibliograpgyIndex