Playful Ecopoetics: Pressed Flowers as Lyric Subject.
This essay examines Emily Dickinson's Herbarium and correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson to reveal how pressed flowers function as indexical signs in her poetics. Drawing on Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics, I argue that Dickinson created playful games binding words to material objects,...
| Publicado en: | Emily Dickinson Journal Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 125 - 159 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2025
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