In Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story Professor Jerome Loving provides an intuitive and 'interiorized' reading of the poet's most important works. Using biographical matters as a frame for his interpretations, Loving demonstrates how Dickinson's life is bound up with any series reading of her work. Literally, Dickinson wrote on the second storey of her father's house, but Loving argues that she also used that 'story' (or art) as both a retreat from the transitory nature of life and as a way of experiencing life in what might be termed the 'subjunctive' instead of the 'imperative'. Her persona, therefore, is as disembodied in the poems as was the reclusive poet to visitors to the Amherst 'Homestead'. Loving attempts to show that the voice we hear in the poems is that of the 'mind alone', as Dickinson herself said, 'without corporeal friend'. Of interest to students and scholars of American literature, this critical study will also interest more general readers who enjoy Dickinson's poetry.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521327817
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91963292
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Book Title
Emily Dickinson: the Poet on the Second Story
Author
Jerome Loving
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1987
Number of Pages
144 Pages
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Item Height
228mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
330g
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Title_Author
Jerome Loving
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture