There is here a problem of framing, of bordering and delimitation, whose analysis must be very. finely detailed if it wishes to ascertain the effects of fiction.
---Jacques Derrida, "Le facteur de la verite"
If we are to approach a text, it must have an edge.
---Jacques Derrida, "Living On: Border Lines"
The interaction of creativity with interpretation concerned Robert Browning throughout a career in which he made the dramatic monologue converge sound, silence and audition, as well as image and vision. Reading such a poem is like being drawn into it, having to side with its personae, whil…