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Author Jackson, Virginia, 1956-

Title Dickinson's misery : a theory of lyric reading / Virginia Jackson.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xvii, 298 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index.
Contents 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."
Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Criticism and interpretation.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
United States.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Lyric poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Lyric poetry.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Technique.
Technique.
Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
Poetics.
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