The Emily Dickinson Handbook

Author : Cristanne Miller,Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

Author : Gudrun Grabher (ed),Roland Hagenbüchle,Cristanne Miller (ed)
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046882919

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The Emily Dickinson Handbook by Gudrun Grabher (ed),Roland Hagenbüchle,Cristanne Miller (ed) Pdf

HERE FOR THE first time, students of Emily Dickinson can find a single source of accurate, up-to-date information on the poet's life and works, her letters and manuscripts, the cultural climate of her times, her reception and influence, and the current state of Dickinson scholarship. Written by a distinguished group of contributors from the United States and abroad, the twenty-two essays in this volume reflect the many facets of the poet's oeuvre, as well as the principal trends in Dickinson studies. Topics include Richard Sewall on Dickinson's life, Agnieszka Salska on her letters, David Porter on themes (or the lack of them) in the poetry, Judith Farr on Dickinson and the visual arts, and Roland Hagenbuchle on the poet and literary theory. Contributions from newer scholars range from Kerstin Behnke on translation and Martha Ackmann on biography to Marietta Messmer on the poet's critical reception and Paul Crumbley on her dialogic voice. Each essay presents a historical overview of the subject under scrutiny and offers detailed discussion of the most relevant issues. The scholarship is original and exemplary, in some cases providing access to little studied areas (for example, Jonnie Guerra's essay on adaptations of the poems in the arts) and in others providing an overview of hotly debated areas of study (Suzanne Juhasz on new directions in Dickinson study, or Martha Nell Smith on editing the poems). Unlike encyclopedic entries, each essay also reflects the contributor's distinct and at times controversial point of view . As a result, the essays will prove useful not just to beginning students, but also to established scholars looking for a review of areas of Dickinson studieswith which they are less familiar.

Author : Sharon Leiter
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 9781438108438

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Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson by Sharon Leiter Pdf

Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century.

Author : Cristanne Miller
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781558499515

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Reading in Time by Cristanne Miller Pdf

This book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues both that Dickinson's poetry is formally far closer to the verse of her day than generally imagined and that Dickinson wrote, circulated, and retained poems differently before and after 1865. Many current conceptions of Dickinson are based on her late poetic practice. Such conceptions, Miller contends, are inaccurate for the time when she wrote the great majority of her poems. Before 1865, Dickinson at least ambivalently considered publication, circulated relatively few poems, and saved almost everything she wrote in organized booklets. After this date, she wrote far fewer poems, circulated many poems without retaining them, and took less interest in formally preserving her work. Yet, Miller argues, even when circulating relatively few poems, Dickinson was vitally engaged with the literary and political culture of her day and, in effect, wrote to her contemporaries. Unlike previous accounts placing Dickinson in her era, Reading in Time demonstrates the extent to which formal properties of her poems borrow from the short-lined verse she read in schoolbooks, periodicals, and single-authored volumes. Miller presents Dickinson's writing in relation to contemporary experiments with the lyric, the ballad, and free verse, explores her responses to American Orientalism, presents the dramatic lyric as one of her preferred modes for responding to the Civil War, and gives us new ways to understand the patterns of her composition and practice of poetry.

Author : Frederick Hills Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Amherst (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015043543043

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The Handbook of Amherst, Massachusetts by Frederick Hills Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Calendars
ISBN : UCAL:B3575927

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An Emily Dickinson Year Book by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Author : Martha Nell Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292787544

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Rowing in Eden by Martha Nell Smith Pdf

Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars alike have puzzled over this paradox of wanting to communicate widely and yet apparently refusing to publish. In this pathbreaking study, Martha Nell Smith unravels the paradox by boldly recasting two of the oldest and still most frequently asked questions about Emily Dickinson: Why didn't she publish more poems while she was alive? and Who was her most important contemporary audience? Regarding the question of publication, Smith urges a reconception of the act of publication itself. She argues that Dickinson did publish her work in letters and in forty manuscript books that circulated among a cultured network of correspondents, most important of whom was her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Rather than considering this material unpublished because unprinted, Smith views its alternative publication as a conscious strategy on the poet's part, a daring poetic experiment that also included Dickinson's unusual punctuation, line breaks, stanza divisions, calligraphic orthography, and bookmaking—all the characteristics that later editors tried to standardize or eliminate in preparing the poems for printing. Dickinson's relationship with her most important reader, Sue Dickinson, has also been lost or distorted by multiple levels of censorship, Smith finds. Emphasizing the poet-sustaining aspects of the passionate bonds between the two women, Smith shows that their relationship was both textual and sexual. Based on study of the actual holograph poems, Smith reveals the extent of Sue Dickinson's collaboration in the production of poems, most notably "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers." This finding will surely challenge the popular conception of the isolated, withdrawn Emily Dickinson. Well-versed in poststructuralist, feminist, and new textual criticism, Rowing in Eden uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes. It will be of great interest to a wide audience in literary and feminist studies.

Author : Emily 1830-1886 Dickinson,Frederick H. (Frederick Hills Hitchcock
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1360657673

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HANDBK OF AMHERST MASSACHUSETT by Emily 1830-1886 Dickinson,Frederick H. (Frederick Hills Hitchcock Pdf

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Author : Domhnall Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Community life in literature
ISBN : 1558497765

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Emily Dickinson by Domhnall Mitchell Pdf

Emily Dickinson has often been pictured as a sensitive but isolated poet--someone who published very little in her lifetime and limited herself to lyrics, considered to be the kind of poems most removed from social and political life. In recent years, scholars have challenged that view, and this book extends the discussion in valuable new directions. Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena--the railroad, the Dickinson homestead, and horticulture--and argues that poems about trains, home, and flowers engage with thei meanings in ways that extend beyond the confines of the aesthetic. He shows how Dickinson's poems and letters reveal the full complexity of her position as a woman situated within a larger social and economic class. In the second half of the book, Mitchell considers the ideological, textual, and editorial implications of Dickinson's strategic privatization of her art. He relates the particular forms of her manuscripts' appearance, distribution, and collation to aspects of her social as well as her literary consciousness. In a chapter that is certain to provoke debate, he explores what it means to read individual poems and letters in manuscript versions rather than in printed editions. By paying close attention to textual evidence, he makes the case that various features of the manuscripts are actually matters of accident or immediate convenience rather than the visual markers of a new aestheic principle. Mitchell closes by using the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to explore the contradictions of a "private" poetry that engages verbally in multiple areas of nineteenth-century life and discourse. By attending to the contemporaneous particularities of recurrent words and images, he demonstrates that Dickinson could stay at home and still be at home in history, too.

Author : Jamie Fuller
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312145861

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The Diary of Emily Dickinson by Jamie Fuller Pdf

In her fictionalization of Emily Dickinson's diary, Jamie Fuller paints a fascinating picture that will deepen any reader's understanding and appreciation of one of America's greatest and most enduring poets. Line drawings throughout.

Author : Martha Nell Smith,Mary Loeffelholz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118492161

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A Companion to Emily Dickinson by Martha Nell Smith,Mary Loeffelholz Pdf

This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson?s lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile Provides incisive interventions into current critical discussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry Features new work being done in the critique of nineteenth-century American poetry generally, as well as new work being done in Dickinson studies Designed to be used alongside the Dickinson Electronic Archives, an online resource developed over the past ten years

Author : Victoria N. Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350380097

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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Victoria N. Morgan Pdf

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century.

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811216837

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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"

Author : Arlyn Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780760374368

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The Emily Dickinson Cookbook by Arlyn Osborne Pdf

For fans of the hit Apple+ TV series Dickinson and for Emily Dickinson’s devoted readers everywhere, The Emily Dickinson Cookbook brings this enigmatic poet’s world to life—right in your kitchen!

Author : Domhnall Mitchell,Maria Stuart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441138989

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The International Reception of Emily Dickinson by Domhnall Mitchell,Maria Stuart Pdf

Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This collection of essays brings together international research on her reception abroad including translations, circulation and the responses of private and professional readers to her poetry in different countries. The contributors address key translations of individual poems and lyric sequences; Dickinson's influence on other writers, poets and culture more broadly; biographical constructions of Dickinson as a poet; the political cultural and linguistic contexts of translations; and adaptations into other media. It will appeal to all those interested in the international reception of Dickinson and nineteenth-century American literature more widely.