Emily Dickinson And Philosophy

Author : Jed Deppman,Marianne Noble,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : 48,6 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 : 55,6 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 : 43,6 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 : 45,9 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 : 41,6 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 : 425 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : R. Brantley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : 42,6 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 : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Jed Deppman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Roger Lundin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802821278

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Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief by Roger Lundin Pdf

Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history. --From publisher description.

Author : Cristanne Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632

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Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812966015

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger Pdf

Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production. Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson’s story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father’s political isolation after the Whig Party’s collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice. The definitive treatment of Dickinson’s life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator. Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography.