TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claudia Ottlinger
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653019230
TI  - The Death-Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-01923-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050801
N2  - While Emily Dickinson as a forerunner of modern American poetry has met with a good critical response, Christina Rossetti is still regarded as a minor Victorian poet. Despite all their biographical, religious and poetic differences the comparative approach is appropriate for shedding new light on these two women's poetic output, which is preoccupied with death, and for displaying their cultural divergences as well as their transcultural affinities. Based on a new typology and with reference to 220 primary texts, this book highlights Dickinson's and Rossetti's supremely complex view of death, characterized by an enormous amount of shifting emphases and perspectives and focussing on the lyrical I that oscillates between fear and fascination, numb despair and welcome release.
KW  - tod, literatur, motiv
LA  - English
ER  -