Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters
Critical Essays
Amherst, [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, [2009]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
This text introduces the methods of applied functional analysis and applied convexity. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics, science, and technology, it focuses on the solutions to two closely related problems. The first concerns finding roots of systems of equations and operative equations in a given region. The second involves extremal problems of minimizing or maximizing functions defined on subsets of finite and infinite dimensional spaces. Rather than citing practical algorithms for solving problems, this treatment provides the tools for studying problem-related algorithms.
Topics include iterations and fixed points, metric spaces, nonlinear programming, polyhedral convex programming, and infinite convex programming. Additional subjects include linear spaces and convex sets and applications to integral equations. Students should be familiar with advanced calculus and linear algebra. As an introduction to elementary functional analysis motivated by application, this volume also constitutes a helpful reference for theoretically minded engineers, scientists, and applied mathematicians.
Topics include iterations and fixed points, metric spaces, nonlinear programming, polyhedral convex programming, and infinite convex programming. Additional subjects include linear spaces and convex sets and applications to integral equations. Students should be familiar with advanced calculus and linear algebra. As an introduction to elementary functional analysis motivated by application, this volume also constitutes a helpful reference for theoretically minded engineers, scientists, and applied mathematicians.
Contents:
"This is my letter to the world": Emily Dickinson's epistolary poetics / Cindy Mackenzie -- Dickinson's correspondence and the politics of gift-based circulation / Paul Crumbley -- "Blossom[s] of the brain": women's culture and the poetics of Emily Dickinson's correspondence / Stephanie Tingley -- "Saying nothing . . . sometimes says the most": Dickinson's letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser / Karen Dandurand -- Messages of condolence: "more peace than pang" / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- "What are you reading now?": Emily Dickinson's epistolary book club / Eleanor Heginbotham -- Emily Dickinson and marriage: "the etruscan experiment" / Judith Farr -- Heritable heaven: erotic properties in the Dickinson-Lord correspondence / James Guthrie -- Alliteration, emphasis, and spatial prosody in Dickinson's manuscript letters / Ellen Louise Hart -- A hazard of a letter's fortunes: epistolarity and the technology of audience in Emily Dickinson's correspondences / Martha Nell Smith.
Subjects:
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
American letters -- History and criticism.
Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
American letters -- History and criticism.
Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
1558497412
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Criticism Dickinson Ebe | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and indexes.