“‘Faith’ is a fine invention”: Dickinson’s Performance of Doubt and Belief (1st ed. 2024)

By: Regina Yoong

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Synopsis: This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties. Studies on her exploration of faith are ample, but in this book, the author uncovers Dickinson’s playful role-play in enacting solemn themes of religion, death, and the unknown. Dickinson’s creativity encompasses not only her use of language but also her poetic personae and self-created poetic stages inviting readers to question, contemplate deeply or even poke fun at life's absurdities. By using performative roles such as the rejected outcast, passive supplicant, and playful warrior, Dickinson unveils--through a paradoxical framework of belief and unbelief-- a line of inquiry that is multifocal and erratic to “tell all the truth and tell it slant.”

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789819996841
Related ISBNs:: 9789819996834
Publisher:: Springer Nature Singapore
Date of Addition:: 01/22/24
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.