Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art
Freeman, Professor Margaret H. (Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA)
Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art is both an exciting work of literary criticism on a central figure in American literature as well as an invitation for students and researchers to engage with cognitive literary studies.
Emily Dickinson's poetry can be challenging and difficult. It paradoxically gives readers a feeling of closeness and intimacy while being puzzling and obscure. Critical interpretations of Dickinson's poems tend to focus on what t...