Choosing Not Choosing

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University of Chicago Press, 1992 - 257 oldal
Although Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing is the first book-length consideration of the poems in their manuscript context. Sharon Cameron demonstrates that to read the poems with attention to their placement in the fascicles is to observe scenes and subjects unfolding between and among poems rather than to think of them as isolated riddles, enigmatic in both syntax and reference. Thus Choosing Not Choosing illustrates that the contextual sense of Dickinson is not the canonical sense of Dickinson.

Considering the poems in the context of the fascicles, Cameron argues that an essential refusal of choice pervades all aspects of Dickinson's poetry. Because Dickinson never chose whether she wanted her poems read as single lyrics or in sequence (nor is it clear where any fascicle text ends, or even how, in context, a poem is bounded), "not choosing" is a textual issue; it is also a formal issue because Dickinson refused to chose among poetic variants; it is a thematic issue; and, finally, it is a philosophical one, since what is produced by "not choosing" is a radical indifference to difference. Extending the readings of Dickinson offered in her earlier book Lyric Time, Cameron continues to enlarge our understanding of the work of this singular American poet.
 

Tartalomjegyzék

Internal Energy Temperature and Heat
13
Electricity
28
Atomic Structure
39
Electric Charge and Potential
51
Conduction and Storage of Electric Charges
62
Current Electricity
76
Magnetism Electromagnetism and Magnetic Resonance
106
Electromagnetic Induction
130
Interaction of Xrays and Gamma Rays with Matter
252
Radioactivity and Radionuclide Imaging
301
Radiation Safety
322
Ultrasound
348
Appendix
361
Index
377
130
380
I

Alternating Current
138
Thermionic Emission
160
Solid State Devices
181
Electromagnetic Radiation
195
Light
217
Amplified Contexts 49
49
Displaced Variants 105
105
Not Choosing
137
APPENDIX
195
Copyright

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Sharon Cameron was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She started out working several different jobs such as: a classical piano teacher, part-time genealogist, chair of a non-profit for a local theater group and a coordinator of the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrator's Midsouth Conference. She soon found her passion for writing and now writes full-time. She made The New York Times Best Seller's List in 2016 with her title, "The Forgetting".

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