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Towards a Chinese Perspective on Dickinson
Author(s) -
Yanbin Kang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12120
Subject(s) - premise , perspective (graphical) , extant taxon , poetry , relation (database) , context (archaeology) , complement (music) , action (physics) , epistemology , field (mathematics) , literature , globalization , psychology , sociology , philosophy , history , computer science , art , artificial intelligence , political science , law , archaeology , pure mathematics , gene , mathematics , database , chemistry , biology , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , physics , complementation , phenotype
In the context of globalization of Dickinson studies, this essay tries to chart the contours of an emerging field. Considering the philosophical premise of Daoist non‐action as a critical framework for Dickinson's corpus, and likewise a valuable complement to extant Western approaches, I will reread some of Dickinson's paradigmatic poems. I will argue that Dickinson's meditative passivity, her writing practices, and her seemingly problematic or “difficult” poems can be better understood in relation to the Eastern philosophy.