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American literary modernism precursors
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autograph manuscript scholarship
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contemporary Dickinson scholarship
critical apparatus for poetry
critical approaches to nineteenth century poetry
cross-referencing in manuscript studies
dash and punctuation significance
editorial theory in poetry
Emily Dickinson textual studies
epistolary text analysis
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experimental editorial theory
experimental typographic studies
graphic poetics in literature
handwriting as interpretive tool
handwritten lyric study
historical poetry practices
historical textual criticism
historiography of Dickinson interpretation
letter-shape analysis
lineation and spacing analysis
literary form and content interplay
literary hermeneutics
literary materiality studies
literary paleography
literary scholarship methodology
manuscript contextualization methods
manuscript editing debates
manuscript literacy in literary studies
manuscript preservation and analysis
manuscript versus print comparison
nineteenth century American poetry analysis
philological approaches to poetry
poet manuscript interpretation
poet's compositional practices
poetial innovation studies
poetics of spacing and layout
poetics of visual arrangement
poetry pedagogy and manuscript
reader response to manuscript form
textual fidelity evaluation
textual meaning and form
textual radicalism in American letters
variant readings in Dickinson studies
visual elements in poetry
Product details
- ISBN 9781558494626
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2005
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A study of the poet's distinctive compositional practices; Debates about editorial proprieties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of the two-volume Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Many critics have since investigated the possibility that autograph poems might have primacy over their printed versions, and it has been suggested that to read Dickinson in any standard typographic edition is effectively to read her in translation, at one remove from her actual practices. More specifically, it has been claimed that line arrangements, the shape of words and letters, and the particular angle of dashes are all potentially integral to any given poem's meaning, making a graphic contribution to its contents. In Measures of Possibility, Domhnall Mitchell sets out to test the hypothesis of Dickinson's textual radicalism, and its consequences for readers, students, and teachers, by looking closely at features such as spacing, the physical direction of the writing, and letter-shapes in hand-written lyric and epistolary texts. Through systematic contextualization and cross-referencing, Mitchell provides the reader with a critical apparatus by which to measure the extent to which contemporary approaches to Dickinson's autograph procedures can reasonably be formulated as corresponding to the poet's own purposes.
