Dickinson's Misery A Theory of Lyric Reading

Name: Dickinson's Misery A Theory of Lyric Reading
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ISBN: 9780691119915

ISBN-10: 0691119910

ISBN-13: 9780691119915

Edition: 2005

Authors: Virginia Jackson

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How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? InDickinson'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 Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's work into public view. The familiar letters, notes on advertising fliers, verses on split-open envelopes, and collections of verses on personal stationery tied together with string have become the Dickinson poems celebrated since her death as exemplary lyrics. Jackson…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Beforehand



Dickinson Undone


Bird-tracks


"When what they sung for ..."


Lyric Context


Hybrid Poems


Dickinson Unbound


The Archive



Lyric Reading


"My Cricket"


Lyric Alienation


Lyric Theory


Against (Lyric) Theory



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"



"Faith in Anatomy"


Achilles' Head


The Interpretant


"No Bird-yet rode in Ether-"


The Queen's Place



Dickinson's Misery


"Misery, how fair"


"The Literature of Misery"


"This Chasm"


"And bore her safe away"


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Works Cited