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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886."”.
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Emily Dickinson's feminist response to Scripture as manifested in her poetry and correspondence.
Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson struggled to reconcile her concern for gender with her belief in a patriarchal God and the androcentric (male-centered) Bible. This thesis maintains that Dickinson read against the biblical text (the methodology of today's feminist reader-response theory) to …
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Reconstructions: Nine Movements for Solo Soprano, Chorus, and Wind Ensemble
… and wind ensemble using texts from several of Emily Dickinson's poems. The soloist represents the main character in this dramatic work, and the narrative structure portrays abstract moments in this character's life. While the narrative structure of the reconstructed fragments is important to …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… of existence pioneered by Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, a way of thinking that I claim, more than Emerson’s, nurtures the ameliorative impulse of pragmatism. To that end, I challenge the continuity of the Emerson-to-pragmatism story by showing how the critical pressure Melville and …
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Revolt and tradition in the thought of Emily Dickinson
… to show 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 …