Dickinson's Misery a Theory of Lyric Reading.
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TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781400850754
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Technique
- Lyric poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- Poetics -- History -- 19th century
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Lyric poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- Poetics -- History -- 19th century
- PS1541 .D535 2013
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; BEFOREHAND; CHAPTER ONE: Dickinson Undone; Bird-tracks; "When what they sung for . . ."; Lyric Context; Hybrid Poems; Dickinson Unbound; The Archive; CHAPTER TWO: Lyric Reading; "My Cricket"; Lyric Alienation; Lyric Theory; Against (Lyric) Theory; CHAPTER THREE: Dickinson's Figure of Address; "The only poets"; Lyric Media; "The man who makes sheets of paper"; "You-there-I-here"; "The most pathetic thing I do"; CHAPTER FOUR: "Faith in Anatomy"; Achilles' Head; The Interpretant.
"No Bird-yet rode in Ether-"The Queen's Place; CHAPTER FIVE: Dickinson's Misery; "Misery, how fair"; "The Literature of Misery"; "This Chasm"; "And bore her safe away"; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Works Cited; Index.
How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's work into public view. The familiar letters, notes on advertising fliers, verses on split-open envelopes, and collections of verses on personal stationery tied t.
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