Emily Dickinson's open folios : scenes of reading, surfaces of writing

The Resource Emily Dickinson's open folios : scenes of reading, surfaces of writing
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Emily Dickinson's open folios : scenes of reading, surfaces of writing
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scenes of reading, surfaces of writing
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[edited by] Marta L. Werner
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eng
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"Emily Dickinson's Open Folios is a scholarly edition and aesthetic exploration of a group of forty late drafts and fragments hitherto known as the "Lord letters." The drafts are presented in facsimile form alongside typed transcriptions that reproduce as fully as possible the shock of script and startling array of visual details inscribed on the surfaces of the manuscripts." "Marta L. Werner argues that a redefinition of the editorial enterprise is needed to approach the revelations of these writings - the details that have been all but erased by editorial interventions and print conventions in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, "un-editing" them allows a better understanding of the relationship between medium and messages. Werner's commentary forsakes the claims to comprehensiveness generally associated with scholarly narrative in favor of a series of speculative and fragmentary "close-ups"--A portrait in pieces. Finally, she proposes the acts of both reading and writing as visual poems." "A crucial reference for Dickinson scholars, this book is also of primary importance to textual scholars, editorial theorists, and students of gender and cultural studies interested in the production, dissemination, and interpretation of works by women writers."--Jacket
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non fiction
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bibliography
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Editorial theory and literary criticism

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