Measures of possibility : Emily Dickinson's manuscripts
"Debates about editorial properties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of the two-volume 'Manuscript books of Emily Dickinson', edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Many critics have since investigated the possibility that autograph poems might have primacy over their printed versions, and it has been suggested that to read Dickinson in any standard typographic edition is effectively to read her in translation, at one remove from her actual practices. More specifically, it has been claimed that line arrangements, the shape of words and letters, and the particular angle of dashes are all potentially integral to any given poem's meaning, making a graphic contribution to its contents
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781558494565, 9781558494626, 1558494561, 1558494626
60650927
Prologue : Emily has left the building
Packaging Emily : Dickinson in books
Getting nearer, knowing less : Emily Dickinson's correspondence with Susan Gilbert Dickinson
"Because I could not say it, I fixed it in the verse" : Dickinson and Samuel Bowles
"The way I read a letter's this" : Dickinson and genre
"The ear is the last face" : the manuscript as archive of rhythm and rhyme
"Bells whose jingling cooled my tramp" : Dickinson and meter
Toward a culture of measurement in manuscript study
Postscript : "Where the meanings, are."