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PublisherPearson Education

ISBN-10013033524X

ISBN-139780130335241

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038286108

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEmily Dickinson : a Collection of Critical Essays

SubjectGeneral, Poetry

Publication Year1995

TypeTextbook

AuthorJudith Farr, Emily. Dickinson

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number1

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN94-048010

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal811/.4

Table Of ContentIntroductory Essay, Judith Farr. The Wayward Nun beneath the Hill: Emily Dickinson and the Mysteries of Womanhood, Sandra M. Gilbert. Emily Dickinson's Books and Reading, Richard B. Sewall. "Sumptuous Destitution" , Richard Wilbur. Thirst and Starvation in Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Vivian R. Pollak. Emily Dickinson and the Economics of Desire, Joan Burbick. Emily Dickinson and the Calvinist Tradition, Jane Donahue Eberwein. "Tender Pioneer" : Emily Dickinson's Poems on The Life of Christ, Dorothy Huff Oberhaus. "Impertinent Constructions of Body and Self: Dickinson's Use of the Romantic Grotesque" , Cynthia Griffin Wolff. "The Landscape of the Sprit" , Suzanne Juhasz. Strangely Abstracted Images, David Porter. The Riddles of Emily Dickinson, Anthony Hecht. The Art of Peace, Barton Levi St. Armand. Dickinson's Experimental Grammar: Nouns and Verbs, Cristanne Miller. Emily Dickinson's Volcanic Punctuation, Kamilla Denman. A Musical Aesthetic, Judy Jo Small. The Poet as Cartoonist: Pictures Sewed to Words, Martha Nell Smith. Amplified Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the Fascicles, Sharon Cameron. Emily Dickinson's Visible Language, Jerome McGann. Chronology of Important Dates. Bibliography. Notes on Contributors.

SynopsisA collection of critical essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Will also contain an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in the field), a chronology of the author's life, and an annotated bibliography., A truly useful collection of literary criticism on a widely studied author, this collection of essays, selected and introduced by a distinguished scholar, makes the most informative and provocative critical work easily available to the general public.KEY TOPICS: Offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on a crucial literary figure of the past. Also included is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography., A truly useful collection of literary criticism on a widely studied author, this collection of essays, selected and introduced by a distinguished scholar, makes the most informative and provocative critical work easily available to the general public. KEY TOPICS: Offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on a crucial literary figure of the past. Also included is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography. MARKET:

LC Classification NumberPS1541.Z5E393 1996