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Dickinson Criticism 1981

• Porter, David. Dickinson: The Modern Idiom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. ED's art has a vast purposelessness; she is a deconstructor, and akin to modernist deconstructors like James Joyce or 20th-century American poets. Porter, who had constructed a modest chronologically-based study of Dickinson 15 years earlier, now abandons chronology in favor of affinity study and literary theory. A provocative, widely-cited study.

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