Prof. Susan Facknitz 3 credits

          In this course we will study the poetry of Emily Dickinson as well as the history of the critical and public reception of her work. We will partake of an intensive textual study of the poems in their various forms and investigate what these variations tell us about the various constructions of Emily Dickinson. Once we are thoroughly terrified by her work, we will take a short break to study the poetry and essays of two self identified inheritors of the Dickinsonian tradition (Adrienne Rich and Susan Howe) before returning to study the fascicles, the groupings of the poems created by Dickinson and ignored by all of her editors. We will spend the final week of the course presenting papers and creative work at a conference in honor of Dickinson's December 10 birthday which we will organize as a class.

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