{"product_id":"lyric-time-dickinson-and-the-limits-of-genre-paperback","title":"Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Cameron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyric Time \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoised between analysis of Emily Dickinson's poetic texts and theoretical inquiry, \u003ci\u003eLyric Time \u003c\/i\u003esuggests that the temporal problems of Dickinson's poems are frequently exaggerations of the features that distinguish the lyric as a genre. \"It is precisely the distance some of Dickinson's poems go toward the far end of coherence, precisely the outlandishness of their extremity, that allows us to see, magnified, the fine workings of more conventional lyrics,\" writes Sharon Cameron. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyric Time\u003c\/i\u003e is written for the literary audience at large--Dickinsonians, romanticists, theorists, anyone interested in American poetry, or in poetry at all, and especially anyone who admires a risky book that succeeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyric Time offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoised between analysis of Emily Dickinson's poetic texts and theoretical inquiry, \"Lyric Time\" suggests that the temporal problems of Dickinson's poems are frequently exaggerations of the features that distinguish the lyric as a genre. \"It is precisely the distance some of Dickinson's poems go toward the far end of coherence, precisely the outlandishness of their extremity, that allows us to see, magnified, the fine workings of more conventional lyrics,\" writes Sharon Cameron. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lyric Time\" is written for the literary audience at large-- Dickinsonians, romanticists, theorists, anyone interested in American poetry, or in poetry at all, and especially anyone who admires a risky book that succeeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Cameron\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9.01 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 1981\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723258499135,"sku":"9780801821165","price":71.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fe0c7804dcb05b4f1de76836ccc8c0fd.webp?v=1765098550","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/lyric-time-dickinson-and-the-limits-of-genre-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}