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Emily Dickinson: New England Metaphysical Poet
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Communicating Metaphors in Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney
… temporally disparate authors – Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney – whose work, analyzed by linguists as well as literary critics, is abundant in metaphor, but might prompt us to think about literary communication in different ways. The Introduction considers the coincidence of the central …
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A contrast of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson,
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Revolt and tradition in the thought of Emily Dickinson
… two major influences in the thought of Emily Dickinson which contributed greatly to two antithetic doctrines which commanded her loyalty. One of these two was a reverence which she felt for the Puritan concepts of life; the other was a revolutionary trait that would not adhere to Puritan …
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The subjunctive mood in the writings of Emily Dickinson
The subjunctive mood in the poems of Emily Dickinson was from the outset a source of confusion to editors and readers. The first editors thought that these forms, in particular the third person singular verbs which omit the s inflection, were incorrect usages. These editors often ''corrected" them …
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Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An exercise in reading the interracial canon
Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An Exercise in Reading the Interracial Canon has two purposes. First, it offers detailed readings of three American novels: An Imperative Duty by William Dean Howells (1891), What Answer? by Anna Dickinson (1868), and Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis (1947). These …
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Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet in a 21st Century World
… access to literary content in the case of Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. The discussion continues with how this was a problem for Dickinson while she was alive due to her reclusiveness and unorthodox punctuation. The capstone then looks at the other aspects of this in the roles that …
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The Romanticism of the Patriarchy versus Poems by Emily Dickinson
<p>Using poems by Emily Dickinson I will disect the closeting of the poet herself, meaning the hidden identity of the author from within her own work. The poems used here reference a writer hiding in plain sight, comparison to womens equality and how women have over centuries hidden their true …
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"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir
… writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir incorporate insects into their work. This study explores three interrelated issues connected to encounters with and explorations of the microscopic and unacknowledged position of insects in nature: first, how insects factor …
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The Mystical Trends in The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Annette Von Droste-Huelshoff
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Madness as metaphor : a study of mysticism in the life and art of Emily Dickinson
… of mysticism in the art and life of Emily Dickinson, and shows that because of the physiological changes endured by the mystic and the unique relationship between mysticism and madness, what might be read literally as madness (psychosis) in Dickinson's poems should be seen as a metaphor for …
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