Dickinson’s Silence Authors Félix Ernesto Chávez Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Keywords: Emily Dickinson, biography, letter, poetic identity, transcendentalism, romanticism Abstract The life and work of the American writer Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) are full of silences. We might say that the silence is a distinctive mark, since it also becomes apparent in the vital attitude of the author, in her election of seclusion, in the same way that she turns it into a topic in her letters and poems, to the extent where the poetical identity itself becomes diffuse. If we analyze her own texts in the reconstruction of the biography, we might consider the transcendentalist and romantic conception of the writer, whose paradigmatic models of creation are masculine, though from the biographical point of view she feels more attracted towards the great feminine voices that preceded her. This article itself proposes an approximation, from the Dickinson’s texts, to different types of silences that we can find in the entire Dickinsonian literary corpus. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
