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Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens

Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens

Dickie, Margaret

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferencePoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0812230779
ISBN13: 9780812230772
Publisher: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
Published: Jan 29 1991
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In Lyric Contingencies Margaret Dickie brings Wallace Stevens and Emily Dick­inson together to explore the ways in which the lyric genre is eccentric to, even disruptive of, the Emersonian tradition that has shaped American literary history. Dickie contends that although Stevens and Dickinson represent different moments of cultural crises, different genders, and different and private lives, they faced similar problems of expression and similar formal and cultural restraints in their devotion to the lyric genre.

Dickie considers those elements of the lyric that set it apart from both prose and narrative poetry: its speaker, its insistence on artifice, and its relation to an audience. By concentrating on these, she examines the radically experimental ways in which Dickinson and Stevens used the genre to question cultural certainties of gender, language, and the nature of the individual.

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