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Dickinson's misery : a theory of lyric reading / Virginia Jackson.

Author: Jackson, Virginia, 1956-

Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

Descriptionxvii, 298 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.

Note:1: Dickinson undone -- Bird-tracks -- "When what they sung for ..." -- Lyric context -- Hybrid poems -- Dickinson unbound -- The archive -- 2: Lyric reading -- "My cricket" -- Lyric alienation -- Lyric theory -- Against (lyric) theory -- 3: Dickinson's figure of address -- "The only poets" -- Lyric media -- "The man who makes sheets of paper" -- "You--there--I--here" -- "The most pathetic thing I do" -- 4: "Faith in anatomy" -- Achilles' head -- The interpretant -- "No bird--yet rode in Ether--" -- The queen's place -- 5: Dickinson's misery -- "Misery, how fair" -- "The literature of misery" -- "This chasm" -- "And bore her safe away."

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and index.



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