Author: Arthur GoldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Walt Whitman
Author: Arthur GoldenWalt Whitman
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143811270X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents a selection of important older literary criticism of selected works by Walt Whitman.
Walt Whitman as a Critic of Literature
Author: Maurice O. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780838311240
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Whitman left little in the way of formal criticism, but his work is permeated with references to other writers. This study brings them together.
Walt Whitman and the World
Author: Gay Wilson AllenPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587290049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.
Walt Whitman as a Critic of Literature
Author: Maurice JohnsonWalt Whitman and the Earth
Author: M. Jimmie KillingsworthPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587295164
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas’d corpses, It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor, It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last. —Walt Whitman, from “This Compost” How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman’s poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman’s language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman’s language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman’s poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experience and language that continually crop up in the discourse of political ecology and that an ecopoetic perspective can explicate Whitman’s feelings about his aging body, his war-torn nation, and the increasing stress on the American environment both inside and outside the urban world. He begins with a close reading of “This Compost”—Whitman’s greatest contribution to the literature of ecology,” from the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. He then explores personification and nature as object, as resource, and as spirit and examines manifest destiny and the globalizing impulse behind Leaves of Grass, then moves the other way, toward Whitman’s regional, even local appeal—demonstrating that he remained an island poet even as he became America’s first urban poet. After considering Whitman as an urbanizing poet, he shows how, in his final writings, Whitman tried to renew his earlier connection to nature. Walt Whitman and the Earth reveals Whitman as a powerfully creative experimental poet and a representative figure in American culture whose struggles and impulses previewed our lives today.
Rivulets of Prose
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Century of Whitman Criticism
Author: Edwin Haviland MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Studies in Language, Literature and Criticism
Author: What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
Author: Mark DotyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324006056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.