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Trapped in a Trope
Two sociologists find a television portrayal of Emily Dickinson as an "unusual" woman misleading. "What if ascribing all of Emily’s traits to her status as an unusual woman actually undermines direct engagement with questions about her sexual and romantic life and their bearing on her body of work?"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ana Božičević on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”"
"I can’t underestimate how much this kind of spelled repetition, the shifting meter and rhyme patterns following their own emotional logic and the music inside the words, influenced the way I write in English—Rossetti’s “irregular measures” that John Ruskin amusingly declared a “calamity of modern poetry.” But they also found a kindred bell in the ear as I simultaneously read the anonymous Croatian poets of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, poems of chant and repetition, epic simile and Slavic antithesis." |
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