JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 8

By Shungiku Nakamura

In Dickinson Unbound, Alexandra Socarides takes readers on a journey through the actual steps and stages of Emily Dickinson's creative process. In chapters that deftly balance attention to manuscripts, readings of poems, and a consideration of literary and material culture, Socarides takes up each of the five major stages of Dickinson's writing career: copying poems onto folded sheets of stationery; inserting and embedding poems into correspondence; sewing sheets together to make fascicles; scattering loose sheets; and copying lines on often torn and discarded pieces of household paper. In so doing, Socarides reveals a Dickinsonian poetics starkly different from those regularly narrated by literary history. Here, Dickinson is transformed from an elusive poetic genius whose poems we have interpreted in a vacuum into an author who employed surprising (and, at times, surprisingly conventional) methods to wholly new effect. Dickinson Unbound gives us a Dickinson at once more accessible and more complex than previously imagined. As the first authoritative study of Dickinson's material and compositional methods, this book not only transforms our ways of reading Dickinson, but advocates for a critical methodology that insists on the study of manuscripts, composition, and material culture for poetry of the nineteenth century and thereafter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1427807078
• ISBN13: 9781427807076
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Blu
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Junjo Romantica Volume 8

Perfection at it's best! These story's have just the right amount of angst to keep the reader involved with each of the story's and characters to say the least! You get just enough story and smex to want to get the next volume and hope she keeps writing! Also I can't wait to own the DVD's!!!

Nice surprise

I gave this series a shot, not really hoping to get anything good out of it, but I am glad that I made the effort. I love this series; its funny, romantic and entertaining. I love the funny romance between the main characters. The other two stories are lovely as well. I decided to collect them all, I just have to keep reading and laughing. I totally recommend it, you will not be disappointed.

Wonderful Read

Junjo Romantica: Misaki meets up w/ a new stranger on a train ride commute. Could this be the work of the Usa-pheramones at work? Also, Misaki gets volunteered to teach Usagi how to go on a normal date w/o expenses. However, something is bothering Usagi. Junjo Egoist: Meanwhile, Hiroki comes home to find Nowoki sleeping naked w/ a coworker. W/ the discovery of this new person and a fax about new place to live, Hiroki suffers all kinds of agony trying to get to the bottom of things. Does Nowoki want to break up? One of my favorite volumes because it concentrated on my 2 favorite story lines. Junjo Romantica was both romanticly funny and heartbreaking in some instances.