Inflections Of The Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081311988X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Designated as either em- or en-dashes in print by all but a few recent editors, Dickinson's dash marks in the holography versions vary tremendously in length, height, and angle. Emily Dickinson's life and art have fascinatedand perplexedthe poet's admirers for more than a century. Crumbley believes that Dickinson's unorthodox practice grants her readers the right to question linguistic authority. Crumbley argues that the dash is the key to deciphering the poet's complex experiments with poetic voice.From the time of Dickinson's first editors, Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentw
. Paul Crumbley, professor of English at Utah State University, is on the board of the Emily Dickinson International Society
Elegant and intelligent writing match Dickinson's own voice Inflections of the Pen, although a scholarly work, makes fascinating reading even for those of us not particularly schooled in the mystical work of Emily Dickinson. Crumbley combines masterfully poetic detective work with his own elegance of language to create a piece of work that both honors its subject and offers a first-ever look inside the mind of an ever-elusive writer. Even those untrained in the academics of poetry will find entrancement here. Additionally, I found it inspired me to lo
His readings of individual poems are particularly insightful and illuminating."Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin"By the end of Crumbley's very learned and admirably painstaking study, we see how Derrida, Kristeva, feminist theory, and nineteenth-century cultural studies can all be illuminated by the attention paid to the dashes in Dickinson's manuscripts."Legacy"How refreshing to see Dickinson placed within a tradition, as a successor rather than as a 'beginner'; and to hear her work accounted a force for propagation of wisdom and virtue, rather than confusion and disruption."Religion and the Arts"Reproduces sixteen s