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Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre

Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre

Cameron, Sharon

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0801821169
ISBN13: 9780801821165
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jan 1 1979
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

Lyric Time offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric.

Poised between analysis of Emily Dickinson's poetic texts and theoretical inquiry, Lyric Time suggests that the temporal problems of Dickinson's poems are frequently exaggerations of the features that distinguish the lyric as a genre. It is precisely the distance some of Dickinson's poems go toward the far end of coherence, precisely the outlandishness of their extremity, that allows us to see, magnified, the fine workings of more conventional lyrics, writes Sharon Cameron.

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