There have been tremendous numbers of researches on Emily Dickinson and her poetry no matter abroad or at home.Herkeen concern and love for nature has aroused today's Eco-critical researchers' interest;her uni...There have been tremendous numbers of researches on Emily Dickinson and her poetry no matter abroad or at home.Herkeen concern and love for nature has aroused today's Eco-critical researchers' interest;her unique writing styles,amazing images,novel structures,anti-convention and challenge of tradition have became a high point in the feminist reading.This paper tries to in-terpret Dickinson's awareness of ecofeminism through reading of her poems.展开更多
This paper is aimed at dealing with the cognitive and epistemological significance in Emily Dickinson's use of metonymy in her poems of nature which earlier critics termed enigmatic or definitional.Based on textua...This paper is aimed at dealing with the cognitive and epistemological significance in Emily Dickinson's use of metonymy in her poems of nature which earlier critics termed enigmatic or definitional.Based on textual analysis,the author of this paper attempts to illustrate that,as opposed to Emerson's ideal of transcendence,Dickinson takes worldly contingency as necessary elements of her poetry and proceeds metonymically rather than metaphorically in presenting her everyday encounter with nature and her meditative observation of it.The author also holds that Dickinson's concern about contiguity and contingency,her preference for the metonymical way of knowing,sets her apart from the Emersonian visionary tradition and implicates her perspectival stand with regard to man's potential to know nature with language as the medium.展开更多
文摘There have been tremendous numbers of researches on Emily Dickinson and her poetry no matter abroad or at home.Herkeen concern and love for nature has aroused today's Eco-critical researchers' interest;her unique writing styles,amazing images,novel structures,anti-convention and challenge of tradition have became a high point in the feminist reading.This paper tries to in-terpret Dickinson's awareness of ecofeminism through reading of her poems.
基金The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2020JBWB003)。
文摘This paper is aimed at dealing with the cognitive and epistemological significance in Emily Dickinson's use of metonymy in her poems of nature which earlier critics termed enigmatic or definitional.Based on textual analysis,the author of this paper attempts to illustrate that,as opposed to Emerson's ideal of transcendence,Dickinson takes worldly contingency as necessary elements of her poetry and proceeds metonymically rather than metaphorically in presenting her everyday encounter with nature and her meditative observation of it.The author also holds that Dickinson's concern about contiguity and contingency,her preference for the metonymical way of knowing,sets her apart from the Emersonian visionary tradition and implicates her perspectival stand with regard to man's potential to know nature with language as the medium.
