Today’s class left me FEELING things! Mostly nostalgia for Fall 2019 and for the Combs basement and questions of Faith and Truth. With our discussion of “This World is not Conclusion,” I was really interested in the representation of Faith
Carleigh’s CS for March 11th
In “Dickinson’s Letters,” Salska sets up what they call the “double perspective:” the subjective, Dickinson’s own perspective while writing the letters and “external, because she had to consider her addressee’s response” (172). This double perspective is especially evident in her
Emily Dickinson and Responses to Modernism
The following quote comes from Chapter 1 of Shari Benstock’s Expatriate Modernism: Writing on the Cultural Rim. I’ve bolded the parts that feel particularly resonant with what we’ve discussed in class concerning early reactions to Dickinson. “In Gertrude Stein’s writing
Camerado, I give you my hand!
Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson believed in the written word not just as an articulation of one’s inner thoughts but, fundamentally, as a way to reach and even touch other people. They lived in an era that saw the