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Dickinson, the modern idiom / David Porter.
LIBRA PS1541.Z5 P626
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, David T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack (autograph) (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 316 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 1981.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A swarm of mysteries
- The crucial experience
- Strangely abstracted images
- The puzzling idiom
- How Dickinson wrote
- Disabling freedom
- A finless mind
- The curse of spontaneity
- Dickinson and American Modernism
- Art after the fall
- A new intelligence.
- Notes:
- "Jacket design/Edith Allard."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy is a review copy with underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations throughout.
- Capps Dickinson copy has autograph of J. Capps 317B Mahan Hall.
- ISBN:
- 0674204441
- OCLC:
- 6812966
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