The Word Made Flesh Writ Edible: Emily Dickinson’s Micro-Eucharist of Crumb and Berry
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...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Année: 2017, Volume: 66, Numéro: 3, Pages: 520-533 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CD Christianisme et culture NBP Sacrements TJ Époque moderne |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Starvation
B Synesthesia B Rituel B Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 B logophagia B Sacrament B Sacraments |
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| Résumé: | 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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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117708259 |
