Emily Dickinson As Philosopher

Author : Jed Deppman,Marianne Noble,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Elisabeth Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 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One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime.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 : Ben Kimpel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy in literature
ISBN : 0889465495

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Emily Dickinson as Philosopher by Ben Kimpel Pdf

Author : Marianne Noble,Jed Deppman,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 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
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Fred D. White
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157113316X

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Approaching Emily Dickinson by Fred D. White Pdf

"The book gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the poems and letters; biographical studies informed by theories of gender, sexuality, and by medical history; feminist studies of the poet's life and work; textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts (or "scraps"); new assessments of the poet's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her spiritual sensibility; and of her theories of poetry, including lyricism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : R. Brantley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Eleanor Elson Heginbotham
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081420922X

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Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson by Eleanor Elson Heginbotham Pdf

Heginbotham's book focuses on Emily Dickinson's work as a deliberate writer and editor. The fascicles were forty small portfolios of her poems written between 1856 and 1864, composed on four to seven stationery sheets, folded, stacked, and sewn together with twine. What revelations might come from reading her poems in her own context? Are they simply "scrapbooks," as some claim, or are they evidence of conscious, canny editing? Read in their original places, each lyric becomes different-and more interesting-than when read in isolation. We cannot know why Dickinson compiled the books or what she thought of them, but we can observe what she left in them. What she left is visible only by noting the way the poem answers in a dialogue across the pages, the way lines spilling onto a second page introduce the next poem, the way openings suggest image clusters so that each book has its own network of concerns and language-not a story or philosophical preachment but an aesthetic wholeness. This book is the first to demonstrate that Dickinson's poetic and philosophical creativity is most startling when the reader observes the individual lyric in the poet's own, and only, context for them. For teacher, student, scholar, and poetry lover, Heginbotham creates an important new framework for understanding one of the most complex, clever, and profound U.S. poets.

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 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," Howe 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 : 54,5 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 : Jennifer Berne
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452172071

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On Wings of Words by Jennifer Berne Pdf

An inspiring and kid-accessible biography of one of the world's most famous poets. Emily Dickinson, who famously wrote "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," is brought to life in this moving story. In a small New England town lives Emily Dickinson, a girl in love with small things—a flower petal, a bird, a ray of light, a word. In those small things, her brilliant imagination can see the wide world—and in her words, she takes wing. From celebrated children's author Jennifer Berne comes a lyrical and lovely account of the life of Emily Dickinson: her courage, her faith, and her gift to the world. With Dickinson's own inimitable poetry woven throughout, this lyrical biography is not just a tale of prodigious talent, but also of the power we have to transform ourselves and to reach one another when we speak from the soul. • Fantastic educational opportunity to share Emily Dickinson's story and poetry with young readers • An inspirational real-life story that will appeal to children and adults alike. • Jennifer Berne is the author of critically acclaimed children's biographies of Albert Einstein and Jacques Cousteau. Fans who enjoyed Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and her Poetic Beginnings, Emily and Carlo, and Uncle Emily will love On Wings of Words. • Books for kids ages 5–8 • Poetry for children • Biographies for children Jennifer Berne is the award-winning author of the biographies Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau and On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein. She lives in Copake, New York. Becca Stadtlander is the illustrator of many children's and young adult publications, including Sleep Tight Farm. She was born and raised in Covington, Kentucky.

Author : Emily Dickinson,Susan Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 081122175X

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The Gorgeous Nothings by Emily Dickinson,Susan Howe Pdf

'The Gorgeous Nothings' is a full-colour publication of Emily Dickinson's complete envelope writings.

Author : Roger Lundin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 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,Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,8 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.