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Emily Dickinson's vision : illness and identity in her poetry /
In this original contribution to Dickinson biography and criticism, James Guthrie demonstrates how the poet's optical disease - strabismus, a deviation of the cornea - directly affected her subject matter, her poetic method, and indeed her sense of her own identity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. "Measuring the Sun": Perception, Punishment, and the Rivalrous Imagination
- 2. Compound Vision: The Poet as Astronomer
- 3. The "Scientist of Faith": Overcoming the Obstacles to Perception
- 4. Poetry as Place: Heaven, Ill/locality, and Continents of Light
- 5. The "Consent of Language": Symbolism in Nature, Mathematics, and the Sacrament
- 6. "A Tumultuous Privacy of Storm": Snow, Publication, and the Problem of Romantic Egotism
- 7. A Charter for Heaven on Earth: Law, Property, and Provincialism in Dickinson's Poems and Letters to Judge Otis Phillips Lord.