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Emily Dickinson as a Second Language : Demystifying the Poetry /
"Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote in 19th century American English and referenced long-vanished cultural contexts. A "private poet," she created her own vocabulary, and many of her poems have quite specific local and personal connections. Twenty-first century readers may find her poe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Foreword by Cindy Dickinson; Preface; Introduction; One. Words to Lift Your Hat To; Forgotten Words and Meanings from 19th-Century America; The Language of Home; Victorian Flower Language; Coining Her Own Words; Two. New England; Pictures of an Agricultural Community; Feeling the Cycles of the Seasons; The Railroad Comes to Town; Three. The Private Poet; Circumference; North, South, East and West; Latitude, Degree, Meridian; Film; Physiognomy; Dickinson's Italic; Four. The Second Great Awakening; Emily Dickinson's Religious Heritage; Early Struggles
- The Language of the ChurchSigns and Emblems; Argument from Design; Five. The King James Version; Biblical Allusion, Christian Typology and a Pagan Goddess; The Vail; The Book of Revelation; Some Very Different Crowns; The Symbolic White; Intimate with the Gospels; Six. The Poem in Context; "My Friends are my Estate"; Life in Amherst; The Great White Plague; The American Civil War; The Trove, the Herbarium and the Vault; Seven. Secrets of the Temple: Specialized Vocabularies; The Law, Commerce and Politics; The Language of Science; Eight. The Language of Intimacy
- It's Like She's Talking Directly to Me!Conversational Style; The Omitted Center; Words Beyond Words; Nine. The Poet's Toolbox; "If no mistake you have made, losing you are"; Double Duty Words; A Poet's License; Sweet Torment and Sumptuous Despair; A Turn at the End; Afterword; Appendix A; Appendix B; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index of First Lines; General Index