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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Jackson, Virginia Walker. Dickinson's misery : a theory of lyric reading. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005] xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm. (DLC) 2004052466 (OCoLC)55847172 |
Named Person: | Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Virginia Walker Jackson |
ISBN: | 9781400850754 1400850754 1306142792 9781306142793 9780691119908 0691119902 0691119910 9780691119915 |
OCLC Number: | 880237579 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020. MiAaHDL |
Awards: | Winner of Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award 2006 Winner of Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book 2005 |
Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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." |
Responsibility: | Virginia Jackson. |
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Winner of the 2006 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Winner of the 2005 Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association "Beautifully written, witty, incisive, learned, savvy, generous, and generative, Dickinson's Misery has no contemporary peer, synthesizing as it does knowledge of a vast range of relevant philosophy, poetic theory, and poetry as Jackson's inquiry opens up territories none other has thought to explore."--Martha Nell Smith, American Literature "Jackson seeks to engage with the reader in exploring various theories of the lyric, and to find a way into a range of lyric genres (songs, notes, letters, elegies, valentines, verse) in order to consider them as alternatives to a singular idea of the lyric. The book is beautifully illustrated with a range of Dickinson material which allows the reader to appreciate the images of her writing as an essential element in 'reading' the past."--The Year's Work in English Studies (2007) Read more...


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