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Identifier	Thesis 1805
Author	Moqbel, Asem Y. A.
Title	Emily Dickinson's Textual Rebellion
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2005
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The purpose of this thesis is to prove that Dickinson characterized her poetic discourse with unique figurative manipulations as well as autonomous stylistic and prosodic techniques to serve a process of poetic dismantlement of her contemporary Scriptural typology and ideological constructs that both consciously and unconsciously restricted women into a cocoon of domesticity and denied them vital and practical roles in the social hierarchies of nineteenth-century New England. This process of decentralization of the patriarchal centers is embodied in a tonality of rebellious textualizations of Dickinson's non-conforming beliefs and protesting intentions through a multi-staged poetic performance. These stages, as the thesis tries to demonstrate, are the pre-figuration stage, which is prior to linguistic signification, the birth of the motif, which is usually of an opposing nature and revolves around critiquing an oppressive construct, the maturation of such a motif through condensing its segments and bringing it into existence in the form of a poetic theme, the measuring stage in which the aforesaid motif is gauged against a more logical alternative, and the dual Dickinsonian discourse that ends in the dismantling of the construct on the one hand and the establishment of her poetic intention on the other. It attempts also to show how these characteristics work collaboratively to produce that very tension and tautness in Dickinson's discourse and poetic style respectively. The thesis focuses also on the importance of approaching Dickinson's seemingly intricate nature and unconventional poetics through the use of deconstructive readings. Unlike other linguistic approaches, deconstructive readings rely on larger discursive entities and prosodic signalizations of whole stanzas, entire poems, as well as extended thematic genres to produce precise interpretations and demonstrate objective judgments about Dickinson and her works. While it emblematizes a systematically discursive analysis to evaluate the effectiveness and practicality of the two critical approaches, namely structuralist and deconstructionist in understanding Dickinson's poetic discourse and innovative style on the one hand, the thesis tends to show their capabilities of locating Dickinson and her poetics in the social edifice of the 19th century on the other hand. Moreover, unlike the discursive analysis that deems culture and society as integral parts of its interpretation, structuralist approaches are solely pre-occupied with the verbal textures of the text to the point of relying entirely on abstract grammatical rules so as to recover words, bridge stylistic gaps, and amend distorted structures. They thus promote the cultural detachment of the text and overlook any social influences in its examined discourse. The discursive approach, for the most part, attempts to avoid such remedial reconstructions of the verbal discourse as the proper mechanism to understanding Dickinson and promotes instead comprehensive analyses that look at Dickinson's textualities as inseparable parts of the ideologies of her nineteenth-century New England. It tries also to demonstrate that the destabilizations characterizing Dickinson's poetic canon are only inevitable reactions to her endeavors to decentralize 19th-century tyrannical centers.
Subject	Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Mentzer, Melissa
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	62311569
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