Emily Dickinson In Context

Author : Eliza Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107434103

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Emily Dickinson in Context by Eliza Richards Pdf

Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments, treating the poet's local environments, literary influences, social, cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English, the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson's writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.

Author : Eleanor Elson Heginbotham
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Melanie Hubbard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108491761

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Emily Dickinson and Poetics by Melanie Hubbard Pdf

Dickinson formulates her poetics in the context of popular manuscript practices, rhetoric, philosophy, and science in the American nineteenth century.

Author : Jed Deppman,Marianne Noble,Gary Lee Stonum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Nicole Panizza,Trisha Kannan
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648890925

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The Language of Emily Dickinson by Nicole Panizza,Trisha Kannan Pdf

"The Language of Emily Dickinson" provides valuable insight into the cryptic, complex, and unique language of America’s premier poet. The essays make each subject of exploration accessible to general readers, providing sufficient background and contextual information to situate anyone interested in a better understanding of Dickinson’s language. The collection also makes a substantial contribution to Dickinson studies with new scholarship in philology, musicality, and manuscript study. Cynthia L. Hallen, creator of the invaluable Emily Dickinson Lexicon, offers a detailed examination of Dickinson’s words and phrases that are lexically alive and semantically vital. Nicole Panizza, an accomplished pianist, explores Dickinson’s poetic relationship with music as bilingual practice. Holly L. Norton outlines the surprising connections between Dickinson’s poetry and rap music, and Trisha Kannan contributes to recent discussions regarding Dickinson’s fascicles, the manuscript “books” that contain just over 800 of Dickinson’s 1,789 poems, by reading Fascicle 30 in relation to the work and life of John Keats. This book will be of interest to scholars of Emily Dickinson and advanced readers of poetry—such as those in upper-level undergraduate English courses and graduate students in departments of English—as well as to general readers with an interest in Emily Dickinson.

Author : Audrey Borus
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766073449

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Reading and Interpreting the Works of Emily Dickinson by Audrey Borus Pdf

Emily Dickinson’s words may be well known to students, but they may know very little of her quiet solitary life. This text positions her work within the political climate in which she lived, the culture and expectations for an educated young woman of the day, and discusses what it meant to be a poet during the American Civil War. Through critical analysis of her themes, language, and style and direct quotations from Dickinson’s many correspondences, readers will learn how to think about and understand the works of Emily Dickinson.

Author : W. Clark Gilpin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271065717

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Religion Around Emily Dickinson by W. Clark Gilpin Pdf

Religion Around Emily Dickinson begins with a seeming paradox posed by Dickinson’s posthumously published works: while her poems and letters contain many explicitly religious themes and concepts, throughout her life she resisted joining her local church and rarely attended services. Prompted by this paradox, W. Clark Gilpin proposes, first, that understanding the religious aspect of the surrounding culture enhances our appreciation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and, second, that her poetry casts light on features of religion in nineteenth-century America that might otherwise escape our attention. Religion, especially Protestant Christianity, was “around” Emily Dickinson not only in explicitly religious practices, literature, architecture, and ideas but also as an embedded influence on normative patterns of social organization in the era, including gender roles, education, and ideals of personal intimacy and fulfillment. Through her poetry, Dickinson imaginatively reshaped this richly textured religious inheritance to create her own personal perspective on what it might mean to be religious in the nineteenth century. The artistry of her poetry and the profundity of her thought have meant that this personal perspective proved to be far more than “merely” personal. Instead, Dickinson’s creative engagement with the religion around her has stimulated and challenged successive generations of readers in the United States and around the world.

Author : Barton Levi St. Armand
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521339782

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Emily Dickinson and Her Culture by Barton Levi St. Armand Pdf

Attempts to place Dickinson's works in their cultural context by exploring her attitudes toward death, romance, the afterlife, art, and nature.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632

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Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Author : Wendy Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521001188

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The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin Pdf

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Author : Roger Lundin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : 640 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192570697

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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.

Author : Elizabeth A. Petrino
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874519071

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Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries by Elizabeth A. Petrino Pdf

An interdisciplinary examination of the poet, her milieu, and the ways she and her contemporaries freed their work from cultural limitations.

Author : Wendy Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494541

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The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin Pdf

Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her historical and cultural contexts. As a woman poet, Dickinson's literary persona has become incredibly resonant in the popular imagination. She has been portrayed as singular, enigmatic, and even eccentric. At the same time, Dickinson is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of American poetry, an innovative pre-modernist poet as well as a rebellious and courageous woman. This volume introduces new and practised readers to a variety of critical responses to Dickinson's poetry and life, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780028665726

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"A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's ""There is no Frigate like a Book""" by Gale, Cengage Pdf

"A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's ""There is no Frigate like a Book"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs."