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Emily Dickinson - A Poet's Grammar (Paperback)
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Emily Dickinson - A Poet's Grammar (Paperback)
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In this inventive work on Emily Dickinson's poetry, Cristanne
Miller traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed,
ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style, finding them in sources
as different as the New Testament and the daily patterns of women's
speech. Dickinson writes as she does both because she is steeped in
the great patriarchal texts of her culture, from the Bible and
hymns to Herbert's poetry and Emerson's prose, and because she is
conscious of writing as a woman in an age and culture that assume
great and serious poets are male. Miller observes that Dickinson's
language deviates from normal construction along definable and
consistent lines; consequently it lends itself to the categorical
analysis of an interpretive "grammar" such as the one she has
constructed in this book. In order to facilitate the reading of
Dickinson's poems and to reveal the values and assumptions behind
the poet's manipulations of language, Miller examines in this
grammar how specific elements of the poet's style tend to function
in various contexts. Because many, especially modernist, poets use
some of the same techniques, the grammar throws light on the poetic
syntax of other writers as well. In the course of her analysis,
Miller draws not only on traditional historical and linguistic
sources but also on current sociolinguistic studies of gender and
speech and on feminist descriptions of women's writing. Dickinson's
language, she concludes, could almost have been designed as a model
for twentieth-century theories of what a women's language might be.
As a critical examination of the relationship between linguistic
style and literary identity in America's greatest woman poet, Emily
Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar provides a significant addition to
feminist literary studies.
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