Dickinson's Advertising Flyers: Theorizing Materiality and the Work of Reading

Hubbard, Melanie

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“…Her frequent attachment of edible flora and dead insects to her letters 20 prefigures Cubists pasting chair-caning and menu-pages to paintings by several decades. Her poems and letters are ''mixed-media events,'' in Melanie Hubbard's phrase, 21 written on chocolate wrappers and invitations to taffy-pulls, on butcher's paper and pharmacy slips, shopping lists and adverts for bitters and cordials, all emphasizing the intertwinement of Dickinson's creative and culinary lives.…”

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The Word Made Flesh Writ Edible: Emily Dickinson’s Micro-Eucharist of Crumb and Berry

Reder

2017

Christianity & Literature

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Emily Dickinson, as the enigmatic anti-Madonna of American verse, presides over a Eucharistic micro-drama by suggesting that Words-as-spoken are a sacramental Food. Her repeated tokens of Crumb and Berry are the ritual components of Bread and Wine compressed into nubs, exiles from a collective Loaf and Vine. Dickinson never “took” the public rite of Communion, but performs her own private counter-version via her poems, where “famishing” is used as a progressive verb and “Starvation” is treated as an honorific state. Dickinson’s speaker nibbles at a non-communal crouton in several poems, favoring the nub of a crumb to the risen, levitated Loaf.

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The Word Made Flesh Writ Edible: Emily Dickinson’s Micro-Eucharist of Crumb and Berry

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“Pretty Much All Real Life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family

Wald¹

2007

A Companion to Emily Dickinson

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"What News must think when pondering": Emily Dickinson, the Springfield Daily Republican , and the Poetics of Mass Communication

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2010

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This essay explores the ways in which Dickinson's local newspaper, the Springfield Daily Republican , informs the subject and form of her poetry. From her daily reading, Dickinson responded to a variety of unusual and seemingly uninteresting components of the newspaper: from a mundane medical advertisement to routine stock and weather reports, and from the Republican 's frequent mission statements to its commentary on the developing technology of the telegraph. By considering the ways Dickinson's poetry addresses the Republican , in content as well as form, we can observe the ways the newspaper gave Dickinson occasion to contemplate the larger issue of the nature of mass communication. This article argues that, in poems such as "Would you like Summer? Taste of our's - " (Fr272), "Myself can read the Telegrams" (Fr1049), and "How News must feel when travelling" (Fr1379), Dickinson envisions mass communication as diminishing the importance of the individual by treating readers as an undefined mass and thus forcing the reader into a single, predefined role. In response to this unnatural homogenization, Dickinson's poems model the ways in which the individual, specifically the artist, can prosper in the era of mass communication by taking what is produced for an undefined vast readership and crafting individualized works of art.

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Dickinson's Advertising Flyers: Theorizing Materiality and the Work of Reading

Cited by 6 publications

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The Word Made Flesh Writ Edible: Emily Dickinson’s Micro-Eucharist of Crumb and Berry

The Word Made Flesh Writ Edible: Emily Dickinson’s Micro-Eucharist of Crumb and Berry

“Pretty Much All Real Life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family

"What News must think when pondering": Emily Dickinson, the Springfield Daily Republican , and the Poetics of Mass Communication

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