Sharon Cameron

Choosing Not Choosing

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ISBN 13:: 9780226092348
author:: Sharon Cameron
format:: Paperback
publisher:: University of Chicago Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 1993
Pages:: 271
Dimensions:: 22.71 x 15.16 x 1.73 centimetres
Genre:: Reference & Language, General, Fiction & Literature,
Condition:: New
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Sharon Cameron's Choosing Not Choosing offers a new perspective on Emily Dickinson's poetry by examining her poems in their original manuscript context. By considering the poems as part of larger fascicles, Cameron reveals that Dickinson's work is not just about isolated riddles but rather about scenes and subjects unfolding between and among poems. Cameron argues that an essential refusal of choice pervades all aspects of Dickinson's poetry, from its formal structure to its thematic content. This "not choosing" is a textual issue, a formal issue, a thematic issue, and a philosophical one, resulting in a radical indifference to difference. This book extends Cameron's earlier work on Dickinson, Lyric Time, to further enlarge our understanding of this singular American poet's work.

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