Jackson Dickinson's Misery

A Theory of Lyric Reading
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5075-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Abbreviations xvii

Beforehand 1

Chapter One: Dickinson Undone 16

Bird-tracks 16

"When what they sung for." 26

Lyric Context 31

Hybrid Poems 38

Dickinson Unbound 45

The Archive 53

Chapter Two: Lyric Reading 68

"My Cricket" 68

Lyric Alienation 92

Lyric Theory 100

Against (Lyric) Theory 109

Chapter Three: Dickinson's Figure of Address 118

"The only poets" 118

Lyric Media 126

"The man who makes sheets of paper" 133

"You-there-I-here" 142

"The most pathetic thing I do" 158

Chapter Four: "Faith in Anatomy" 166

Achilles' Head 166

The Interpretant 179

"No Bird-yet rode in Ether--" 185

The Queen's Place 196

Chapter Five: Dickinson's Misery 204

"Misery, how fair" 204

"The Literature of Misery" 212

"This Chasm" 219

"And bore her safe away" 228

Conclusion 235

Notes 241

Selected Works Cited 275

Index 293

Über Autor(innen)

Virginia Jackson is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She publishes on various aspects of nineteenth-century American poetic culture, on historical poetics, and on lyric theory.