Poetics of Private Self Understanding Emily Dickinson\'s Poetry
Contents: Introduction. 1. Poetics of private self. 2. Significance of absence in Dickinson\'s poetry. 3. Reading trans/digital Emily Dickinson. 4. Modernism and Emily Dickinson\'s poetry. 5. Emily Dickinson and literary theory. 6. Dickinson\'s Cosmic consciousness. 7. Reminiscences of Emily Dickinson\'s poetry. 8. Emily Dickinson and language. 9. Emily Dickinson and Popular culture. 10. Emily Dickinson and post-media representation. Conclusion. Bibliography.
"The book titled, Poetics of Private self: Understanding Emily Dickinson\'s Poetry recollects the most prolific private poetics of a poetess who lived and fashioned her poems by writing for her private self, and thereby internalizing all the complexities of verse writing into her private world of artistry. Emily Dickinson composed short lines, lacking titles for her poems, using slant rhyme and unconventional punctuation. The book attempts to make a critical study of her importance to the present time, taking scholarly views expressed all over the world locating the efficacy of a poetess to a broad reading public. Emily redefined her \'private\' existence though poetry, often making her poetry a relevant context for her self-imposed \'privacy\' gaining to fresh momentum with her poetic discourses offered by the self in relation to the world and the inner conviction expressed by Emily Dickinson. Emily\'s idiosyncratic vocabulary could baffle the postmodern audience of the \'need\' for such a stylistic convention but for Emily form addressing variant themes, perhaps complex, into a myriad world of poetry delights readers irrespective of Nationalities and bordered thinking. Scholars of the present times, most literary, have noticed lineation and line breaks, as Emily would complain; acting so powerful a force that could alter the cultural construct of the meanings intended by the poetess. Reading Emily sounds like reaching more to the poetess, her private life and the culture that she carefully represented in her Poetics of Private Self." (jacket)
