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The death-motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti

By Christina Georgina , Ottlinger , Claudia; Dickinson , Emily; Rossetti

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Year
1996
ISBN
3-631-30216-9, 9783631302163, 9780820431833, 0-8204-3183-4, 978-3-653-01923-0, 3653019230
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5409895 bytes)
Series
Studien zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur Bd. 17
Pages
194\198
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

While Emily Dickinson as a forerunner of modern American poetry has met with a good critical response, Christina Rossetti is still regarded as a minor Victorian poet. Despite all their biographical, religious and poetic differences the comparative approach is appropriate for shedding new light on these two women's poetic output, which is preoccupied with death, and for displaying their cultural divergences as well as their transcultural affinities. Based on a new typology and with reference to 220 primary texts, this book highlights Dickinson's and Rossetti's supremely complex view of death, characterized by an enormous amount of shifting emphases and perspectives and focussing on the lyrical I that oscillates between fear and fascination, numb despair and welcome release

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