Emily Dickinson And Philosophy

Author : Jed Deppman,Marianne Noble,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107355316

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Emily Dickinson and Philosophy by Jed Deppman,Marianne Noble,Gary Lee Stonum Pdf

Emily Dickinson's poetry is deeply philosophical. Recognizing that conventional language limited her thought and writing, Dickinson created new poetic forms to pursue the moral and intellectual issues that mattered most to her. This collection situates Dickinson within the rapidly evolving intellectual culture of her time and explores the degree to which her groundbreaking poetry anticipated trends in twentieth-century thought. Essays aim to clarify the ideas at stake in Dickinson's poems by reading them in the context of one or more relevant philosophers, including near-contemporaries such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel, and later philosophers whose methods are implied in her poetry, including Levinas, Sartre and Heidegger. The Dickinson who emerges is a curious, open-minded interpreter of how human beings make sense of the world - one for whom poetry is a component of a lifelong philosophical project.

Author : Marianne Noble,Jed Deppman,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107029415

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Emily Dickinson and Philosophy by Marianne Noble,Jed Deppman,Gary Lee Stonum Pdf

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.

Author : Marianne Noble,Jed Deppman,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1107237289

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Emily Dickinson and Philosophy by Marianne Noble,Jed Deppman,Gary Lee Stonum Pdf

Emily Dickinson's poetry is deeply philosophical. Recognizing that conventional language limited her thought and writing, Dickinson created new poetic forms to pursue the moral and intellectual issues that mattered most to her. This collection situates Dickinson within the rapidly evolving intellectual culture of her time and explores the degree to which her groundbreaking poetry anticipated trends in twentieth-century thought. Essays aim to clarify the ideas at stake in Dickinson's poems by reading them in the context of one or more relevant philosophers, including near-contemporaries such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel, and later philosophers whose methods are implied in her poetry, including Levinas, Sartre and Heidegger. The Dickinson who emerges is a curious, open-minded interpreter of how human beings make sense of the world - one for whom poetry is a component of a lifelong philosophical project"

Author : Elisabeth Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190651190

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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Elisabeth Camp Pdf

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime. When a slim volume of her poems emerged on the American scene in 1890, her work created shockwaves that have not subsided yet. Famously precise and sparse, Emily Dickinson's poetry is often described as philosophical, both because her poetry grapples with philosophical topics like death, spirituality, and the darkening operations of the mind, and because she approaches those topics in a characteristically philosophical manner: analyzing and extrapolating from close observation, exploring alternatives, and connecting thoughts into cumulative demonstrations. But unlike Lucretius or Pope, she cannot be accused of producing versified treatises. Many of her poems are unsettling in their lack of conclusion; their disparate insights often stand in conflict; and her logic turns crucially on imagery, juxtaposition, assonance, slant rhyme, and punctuation. The six chapters of this volume collectively argue that Dickinson is an epistemically ambitious poet, who explores fundamental questions by advancing arguments that are designed to convince. Dickinson exemplifies abstract ideas in tangible form and habituates readers into productive trains of thought--she doesn't just make philosophical claims, but demonstrates how poetry can make a distinct contribution to philosophy. All essays in this volume, drawn from both philosophers and literary theorists, serve as a counterpoint to recent critical work, which has emphasized Dickinson's anguished uncertainty, her nonconventional style, and the unsettled status of her manuscripts. On the view that emerges here, knowing is like cleaning, mending, and lacemakingL a form of hard, ongoing work, but one for which poetry is a powerful, perhaps indispensable, tool.

Author : Elisabeth Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190651213

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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Elisabeth Camp Pdf

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime. When a slim volume of her poems emerged on the American scene in 1890, her work created shockwaves that have not subsided yet. Famously precise and sparse, Emily Dickinson's poetry is often described as philosophical, both because her poetry grapples with philosophical topics like death, spirituality, and the darkening operations of the mind, and because she approaches those topics in a characteristically philosophical manner: analyzing and extrapolating from close observation, exploring alternatives, and connecting thoughts into cumulative demonstrations. But unlike Lucretius or Pope, she cannot be accused of producing versified treatises. Many of her poems are unsettling in their lack of conclusion; their disparate insights often stand in conflict; and her logic turns crucially on imagery, juxtaposition, assonance, slant rhyme, and punctuation. The six chapters of this volume collectively argue that Dickinson is an epistemically ambitious poet, who explores fundamental questions by advancing arguments that are designed to convince. Dickinson exemplifies abstract ideas in tangible form and habituates readers into productive trains of thought--she doesn't just make philosophical claims, but demonstrates how poetry can make a distinct contribution to philosophy. All essays in this volume, drawn from both philosophers and literary theorists, serve as a counterpoint to recent critical work, which has emphasized Dickinson's anguished uncertainty, her nonconventional style, and the unsettled status of her manuscripts. On the view that emerges here, knowing is like cleaning, mending, and lacemakingL a form of hard, ongoing work, but one for which poetry is a powerful, perhaps indispensable, tool.

Author : Ben Kimpel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy in literature
ISBN : 0889465495

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Emily Dickinson as Philosopher by Ben Kimpel Pdf

Author : R. Brantley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137107916

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Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation by R. Brantley Pdf

Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries.

Author : Jed Deppman
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 155849684X

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Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson by Jed Deppman Pdf

Through Deppman’s original analysis, readers come to see how Dickinson’s mind and poetry were informed by two strong but opposing philosophical vocabularies: on the one hand, the Lockean materialism and Scottish Common Sense that dominated her schoolbooks in logic and mental philosophy - Reid, Hedge, Watts, Stewart, Brown, and Upham - and on the other, the neo-Kantian modes of apprehending the supersensible that circulated throughout German idealism and Transcendentalism.

Author : Jed Deppman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131680527

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Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson by Jed Deppman Pdf

A bold exploration of Emily Dickinson as a major figure in the history of American ideas, this book presents Emily Dickinson as one of America's great thinkers and argues that she has even more to say to the 21st century than she did to the 19th.

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811223348

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My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe Pdf

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Home tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...."

Author : Cristanne Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674250362

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Emily Dickinson, a Poet's Grammar by Cristanne Miller Pdf

Traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style of poetry.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632

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Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Author : William Luce
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822233732

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The Belle of Amherst by William Luce Pdf

THE STORY: In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce’s classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson’s secluded life.

Author : Melanie Hubbard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108599672

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Emily Dickinson: Poetics in Context by Melanie Hubbard Pdf

This book re-assesses Dickinson's manuscripts, style, and statements to arrive at a historically appropriate conception of poetics. It compares her composition practices, such as variant generation and writing on already-marked scraps, with those of her peers in nineteenth-century American popular manuscript culture, tracing them to the pervasive influence of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Hume's scepticism, and associationism in philosophy of mind and early neuroscience. The argument consults the archives and considers Dickinson's reading, in and out of school, in philosophy, rhetoric, and semiotic theory, as well as her training in inductive science and her familiarity with ideas about electricity, evolution, emotion, sympathy, and the brain. Combining close readings of poems with contextualizing information about contemporary conflicts in intellectual history, the book contends that Dickinson takes the making of poems to be her philosophical praxis. It depicts a Dickinson committed to thinking about the physical constitution of human consciousness and the historicity and materiality of one of its chief modes, language.

Author : Cristanne Miller,Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192570703

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The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson by Cristanne Miller,Karen Sánchez-Eppler Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes potential agendas for future work in the field of Dickinson studies. This is the first collection on Dickinson to foreground the material and social culture of her time while opening new windows to interpretive possibility in ours. The volume strives to balance Dickinson's own center of gravity in the material culture and historical context of nineteenth-century Amherst with the significance of important critical conversations of our present, thus understanding her poetry with the broadest "Latitude of Home"—as she puts it in her poem "Forever-is composed of Nows." Debates about the lyric, about Dickinson's manuscripts and practices of composition, about the viability of translation across language, media, and culture, and about the politics of class, gender, place, and race circulate through this volume. These debates matter to our moment but also to our understanding of hers. Although rooted in the evolving history of Dickinson criticism, the chapters foreground truly new original research and a wide range of innovative critical methodologies, including artistic responses to her poetry by musicians, visual artists, and other poets. The suppleness and daring of Dickinson's thought and uses of language remain open to new possibilities and meanings, even while they are grounded in contexts from over 150 years ago, and this collection expresses and celebrates the breadth of her accomplishments and relevance.