Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric ReadingPrinceton University Press, 2013 M12 3 - 320 páginas 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 Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's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 together with string have become the Dickinson poems celebrated since her death as exemplary lyrics. |
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... pathos of a subject and the pathos of transmission evoked by the leaf rather accurately predicts the character of the poet who will come to be read heretofore as Emily Dickinson. This book is also about the way in which that confusion ...
... 5 invoke not birdsong's full-throated ease but the pathos of the moment when the song's occasion is over. The question (“Who cares?”) is not a question about anyone's recognition of 26 CHAPTER ONE “When what they sung for . . .”
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Contenido
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Lyric Reading | 68 |
Dickinsons Figure of Address | 118 |
Faith in Anatomy | 166 |
Dickinsons Misery | 204 |
Conclusion | 235 |
Notes | 241 |
Selected Works Cited | 275 |
Index | 293 |
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Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading Virginia Walker Jackson Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |