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? This book poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring many illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, It makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry.
Print Book, English, ©2005
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii, 298 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
9780691119908, 9780691119915, 0691119902, 0691119910
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1: Dickinson undone
Bird-tracks
"When what they sung for ..."
Lyric context
Hybrid poems
Dickinson unbound
The archive
2: Lyric reading
"My cricket"
Lyric alienation
Lyric theory
Against (lyric) theory
3: 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"
4: "Faith in anatomy"
Achilles' head
The interpretant
"No bird
yet rode in Ether
"
The queen's place
5: Dickinson's misery
"Misery, how fair"
"The literature of misery"
"This chasm"
"And bore her safe away."