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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Main Author: Reder, Kimo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 520-533
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Starvation
B Synesthesia
B Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
B Ritual
B logophagia
B Sacrament
B Sacraments
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117708259