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Approaching Emily Dickinson - Critical Currents and Crosscurrents since 1960 (Paperback)
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Approaching Emily Dickinson - Critical Currents and Crosscurrents since 1960 (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
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An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of
one of the most-studied American poets. When Klaus Lubbers's
meticulously detailed Emily Dickinson: The Critical Revolution
appeared in 1968, examining Dickinson criticism up to 1962, a
second revolution in Dickinson criticism was already gathering
force, as a new generation of scholars representing a wide spectrum
of critical perspectives began reassessing the poet's life and
work. In the intervening forty years, approximately 100 books about
Dickinson and her oeuvre have appeared, making her one of the most
extensively studied American poets in history. Approaching Emily
Dickinson provides an objective examination of that vast body of
scholarship. It gives detailed attention to the principal trends in
Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: biographical
studies; feminist perspectives on the poet's life and work;
rhetorical and stylistic analyses; textual studies of the bound and
unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts; studies of
Dickinson's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her
spirituality, and of her theories of poetry. Fred White also
examines Dickinson's artistic reception -- an area of ever-growing
fascination, not only among Dickinson scholars but among artists,
creative writers, dramatists, and musicians for whom Dickinson's
genius has proven to be a powerful conduit for insights into the
human condition. A fundamental research tool for both scholars and
students, Approaching Emily Dickinson also enables fruitful
comparisons both among and within the different critical and
artistic perspectives. Fred D. White is Professor of English at
Santa Clara University. His studies of Emily Dickinson have been
published in College Literature and in the Cambridge Companion to
Emily Dickinson.
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