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Cristanne Miller's study is...densely researched and...living and contemporary in its readings of the poems. Miller works from the assumption that Dickinson sees herself 'oppositionally, defining her position in the world negatively, by distance from some social construct or law'. And Miller shows how those negations have a constructive role.
--Tom Paulin (London Review of Books )
Miller is such an exciting reader...Close and thoughtful interpretation is combined with good humor throughout [the book]...[It] is readable and often delightful. Like Dickinson herself, Miller is quietly full of surprise...Cristanne Miller discovers Dickinson 'in words (her own)' (to use Adrienne Rich's phrase); she sees a self-conscious, determined, decisive Emily Dickinson, not someone so stricken with grief or pain or even her own sensitivity that she doesn't quite know what she's doing or what she's writing. Reminding us that Dickinson called her poems her `letter to the World,' Miller views the poems as communicative, not solipsistic, acts.
--Martha Nell Smith (Women's Review of Books )
Reading this book makes one realize just how clumsy our approach to Dickinson's poetry has always been. Rather than casting about for specific referents for Dickinson's highly ambiguous references, Miller provides a method for understanding and appreciating the extraordinary suggestiveness of Dickinson's work...This text should revise our approach to Dickinson, laying the groundwork for the meticulous examination of fundamental language use that her poems demand. (Choice )
Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar will be especially welcome...Miller's study ultimately shows the linguistic canniness and aesthetic consciousness with which Emily Dickinson consistently distilled "amazing sense/From ordinary Meanings."
--Sandra M. Gilbert (American Literary Realism )
Miller shows readers what is actually at stake in this idiosyncratic verse and maps better than anyone to date the links between the grammatical choices and literary identity.
--David Porter (Nineteenth-Century Literature )
This grammar is neither too dry nor reductive nor abstract. Rather, it provides a way to organize Miller's insights into the particular moments and larger implications of Dickinson's art...Miller's understanding of Dickinson as a woman poet is especially convincing, especially compelling...A fine book: satisfying and stimulating.
--Suzanne Juhasz (Legacy )
By returning us to fundamental issues of style, Miller focuses our attention on the relation between gender identity and literary creation...The accuracy of insight Miller brings to bear on Dickinson's "cryptic revelations" compels us to turn again to the poems to assess the revolutionary force of Dickinson's gender-inflected, elliptic grammar of disguise.
--Joanne Feit Diehl (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature )
--Tom Paulin (London Review of Books )
Miller is such an exciting reader...Close and thoughtful interpretation is combined with good humor throughout [the book]...[It] is readable and often delightful. Like Dickinson herself, Miller is quietly full of surprise...Cristanne Miller discovers Dickinson 'in words (her own)' (to use Adrienne Rich's phrase); she sees a self-conscious, determined, decisive Emily Dickinson, not someone so stricken with grief or pain or even her own sensitivity that she doesn't quite know what she's doing or what she's writing. Reminding us that Dickinson called her poems her `letter to the World,' Miller views the poems as communicative, not solipsistic, acts.
--Martha Nell Smith (Women's Review of Books )
Reading this book makes one realize just how clumsy our approach to Dickinson's poetry has always been. Rather than casting about for specific referents for Dickinson's highly ambiguous references, Miller provides a method for understanding and appreciating the extraordinary suggestiveness of Dickinson's work...This text should revise our approach to Dickinson, laying the groundwork for the meticulous examination of fundamental language use that her poems demand. (Choice )
Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar will be especially welcome...Miller's study ultimately shows the linguistic canniness and aesthetic consciousness with which Emily Dickinson consistently distilled "amazing sense/From ordinary Meanings."
--Sandra M. Gilbert (American Literary Realism )
Miller shows readers what is actually at stake in this idiosyncratic verse and maps better than anyone to date the links between the grammatical choices and literary identity.
--David Porter (Nineteenth-Century Literature )
This grammar is neither too dry nor reductive nor abstract. Rather, it provides a way to organize Miller's insights into the particular moments and larger implications of Dickinson's art...Miller's understanding of Dickinson as a woman poet is especially convincing, especially compelling...A fine book: satisfying and stimulating.
--Suzanne Juhasz (Legacy )
By returning us to fundamental issues of style, Miller focuses our attention on the relation between gender identity and literary creation...The accuracy of insight Miller brings to bear on Dickinson's "cryptic revelations" compels us to turn again to the poems to assess the revolutionary force of Dickinson's gender-inflected, elliptic grammar of disguise.
--Joanne Feit Diehl (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature )
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Cristanne Miller is Chair in the Department of English and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature at University at Buffalo SUNY.
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Terrific Help To Understand Emily Dickinson,
By Lois P. Kackley "Hunt the Doe" (Amherst) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (Paperback)
Cristanne Miller, who is now English department head at State University of New York in Buffalo, authored this book before she was such a giant among Emily Dickinson scholars and professors. It's easy to see in this fairly early work why Miller has found such high regard in literary circles. Aspects of Dickinson's strategies are organized and approached very systematically. Without assuming that she can divine the mind of Dickinson, Miller takes her readers as nearly inside the tactical thoughts of the poet as I think is possible. Those who enjoy Emily Dickinson poetry will thank their lucky stars for the "leg up" on understanding the poems after reading "A Poet's Grammar."
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