The Making of an Image
Emily Dickinson's Blue Fly
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16307674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam S Baskett (Sam S. Baskett, Professor of English (emeritus) at Michigan State University, has written essays on a number of writers, including Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and, most recently, the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. He has taught internationally in Mexico, Turkey, Japan, and the United Kingdom., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 340-344 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq.2008.81.2.340 |
| OpenAlex | W2071602811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Emily Dickinson's startling image, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” incorporates aspects of Hawthorne's “common house-fly” in Seven Gables, which echoes elements of Tennyson's image in “Mariana.” Aware of her predecessors' images, Dickinson, through her characteristic synaesthetic interfusion of sensory experiences, “translates” her “blue fly” into something new and strange
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Image (mathematics · Literature · Marketing buzz · On the fly · Operating system · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |