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A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence

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From: Legacy
Date: 20030430
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By Marietta Messmer. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 280 pp. $34.95.

In A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence, Marietta Messmer identifies letters as the core of Dickinson's art, challenging a configuration that places poems at the center of the work. Explaining that the correspondence has almost always been read autobiographically, Messmer asks how we can go beyond "a dichotomous approach" to letters and poems and move toward "a more dialogically interactive" revisionary reading (18). Claiming that letters are a radically experimental literary form ...

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