Author: Emory HollowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Whitman
Author: Emory HollowayWhitman
Author: Emory HollowayWhitman; an Interpretation in Narrative
Author: Emory HollowayPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602367
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Whitman
Author: Emory HollowayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781404768987
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Walt Whitman
Author: Justin KaplanPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060535117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.
Whitman Noir
Author: Ivy WilsonPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382625
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Walt Whitman’s now-famous maxim about “containing the multitudes” has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratizing impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the color line? Early in his career, especially in the manuscripts leading up to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the poet espoused a rather progressive outlook on race relations within the United States. However, as time passed, he steered away from issues of race and blackness altogether. These changing depictions and representations of African Americans in the poetic space of Leaves of Grass and Whitman’s other writings complicate his attempts to fully contain all of America’s subject-citizens within the national imaginary. As alluring as “containing the multitudes” might prove to be, African American poets and writers have been equally vexed by and attracted to Whitman’s acknowledgment of the promise and contradictions of the United States and their place within it. Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet explores the meaning of blacks and blackness in Whitman’s imagination and, equally significant, also illuminates the aura of Whitman in African American letters from Langston Hughes to June Jordan, Margaret Walker to Yusef Komunyakaa. The essays, which feature academic scholars and poets alike, address questions of literary history, the textual interplay between author and narrator, and race and poetic influence. The volume as a whole reveals the mutual engagement with a matrix of shared ideas, contradictions, and languages to expose how Whitman influenced African American literary production as well as how African American Studies brings to bear new questions and concerns for evaluating Whitman.
Walt Whitman as a Critic of Literature
Author: Critical Companion to Walt Whitman
Author: Charles M. OliverPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108583
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.
The Evolution of Walt Whitman
Author: Roger AsselineauPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380339
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman was already articulated by Asselineau nearly half a century ago. Throughout its eight hundred pages, The Evolution of Walt Whitman speaks with authority on a vast range of topics that define both Whitman the man and Whitman the mythical personage. Remarkably, most of these discussions remain fresh and relevant, and that is in part because they have been so influential. In particular, The Evolution of Walt Whitman inaugurated the study of Leaves of Grass as a lifelong work in progress, and it marked the end of the habit of talking about Leaves as if it were a single unified book. Asselineau saw Whitman's poetry “not as a body of static data but as a constantly changing continuum whose evolution must be carefully observed.” Throughout Evolution, Asselineau placed himself in the role of the observer, analyzing Whitman's development with a kind of scientific detachment. But behind this objective persona burned the soul of a risk taker who was willing to rewrite Whitman studies by bravely proposing what was then a controversial biographical source for Whitman's art—his homosexual desires. The Evolution of Walt Whitman is a reminder that extraordinary works of criticism never exist in and of themselves. In this expanded edition, Roger Asselineau has provided a new essay summarizing his own continuing journey with Whitman. A foreword by Ed Folsom, editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly, regards Evolution as the genesis of contemporary Whitman studies.
Literary Criticism
Author: Gay Wilson AllenPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814311585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Selections from 39 critics.