Choosing Not Choosing

Name: Choosing Not Choosing
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ISBN: 9780226092348

ISBN-10: 0226092348

ISBN-13: 9780226092348

Edition: 1993

Authors: Sharon Cameron

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Although Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing is the first book-length consideration of the poems in their manuscript context. Sharon Cameron demonstrates that to read the poems with attention to their placement in the fascicles is to observe scenes and subjects unfolding between and among poems rather than to think of them as isolated riddles, enigmatic in both syntax and reference. Thus Choosing Not Choosing illustrates that the contextual sense of Dickinson is not the canonical sense…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 271
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Textual Note



Unread Dickinson



The Subject of Context



Excess



Reading Dickinson



Amplified Contexts



Variants



Proximities



Reading Dickinson



Displaced Variants



Fascicle 20: Choosing



Fascicle 16: Not Choosing



The Interior Revision



Transcriptions from Fascicles 13, 15, 16, 20



Facsimile of Fascicle 20


Index of Names


Index of First Lines