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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Seeing to See
Non-Teleological Poetics
Chapter 1: The Uncanny Return of the Ordinary Thoreau and Dickinson
Turning Away
Why Dickinson and Thoreau Elude Classification
Teleological Interpretations of Dickinson and Thoreau
Non-Teleological Interpretations of Dickinson and Thoreau
Chapter 2: "Distance
be her only Motion"
A "Word-Centered" Poetry
"Confident Despair"
The Limits of Interpretation
"Circumference Between"
Chapter 3: "Between Poetry and Natural Fact
Three Contradictions
"Forgotten, as Fulfilled"
Chapter 4: Two Models of Disinterestedness, Part 1
Thoreau's Volatile Subject
Thoreau's Meditations
Chapter 5: Two Models of Disinterestedness, Part 2
Dickinson's Small Subject
Coda on Dickinson and Modernism
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Back Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Seeing to See
Non-Teleological Poetics
Chapter 1: The Uncanny Return of the Ordinary Thoreau and Dickinson
Turning Away
Why Dickinson and Thoreau Elude Classification
Teleological Interpretations of Dickinson and Thoreau
Non-Teleological Interpretations of Dickinson and Thoreau
Chapter 2: "Distance
be her only Motion"
A "Word-Centered" Poetry
"Confident Despair"
The Limits of Interpretation
"Circumference Between"
Chapter 3: "Between Poetry and Natural Fact
Three Contradictions
"Forgotten, as Fulfilled"
Chapter 4: Two Models of Disinterestedness, Part 1
Thoreau's Volatile Subject
Thoreau's Meditations
Chapter 5: Two Models of Disinterestedness, Part 2
Dickinson's Small Subject
Coda on Dickinson and Modernism
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Back Cover