Death in American Literature (Vol. 89) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Dobson, Joanne A. “Oh, Susie, it is dangerous”: Emily Dickinson and the Archetype.” In Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson, edited by Suzanne Juhasz, pp. 80-97. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Explores Dickinson's understanding and use of the masculine in her poetry. Dobson notes that “in her perception, annihilation, disintegration, alienation, and anguish face her as possibilities in any dealings with the masculine.”

Engel, Bernard F. “Why So Doleful?: The Funereal Poetry of the Early Midwest.” The Old Northwest 7, No. 2 (Summer 1981): 147-59.

Discusses early frontier poetry about death, suggesting that the writers felt death to be a worthy subject and that they reflected deeply on it.

Hockersmith, Thomas E. “‘Into Degreeless Noon’: Time, Consciousness, and Oblivion in Emily Dickinson.” ATQ 3, No. 3 (September 1989): 277-95.

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