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Dickinson's Misery : A Theory of Lyric Reading

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 Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in...

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Autor principal: Jackson, Virginia, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.