Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor

by Wendy Barker and Professor Wendy Barker

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"Are you afraid of the sun?" Emily Dickinson asked a friend in 1859.

Wendy Barker states here that that apparently casual query reveals a major theme of Dickinson's poetry, a theme she shares with women writers ranging from Anne Finch to Anne Sexton. It is a tradition based upon the inversion of the traditional male-centered metaphors of light and dark. Through time the light-giving sun has represented vitality, order, God; the light-swallowing...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0809317079

ISBN13:9780809317073

Release Date:January 1991

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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