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The pragmatic Whitman : reimagining American democracy /
In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman's particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Iowa Whitman series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I The metaphysics of democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855-1856
- "My voice goes aftr what my eyes can't reach : pragmatic language and the making of a democratic mythology
- "What is less or more than a touch?": sensory experience and the democratic self
- "The simple, cmpact well-join'd scheme": Whitman's democratic cosmos
- "Not chaos or death ... it is form and union and plan": Laissez-faire and the problem of agency
- Part II Crises and Revisions: "Sea-drift," "Calamus," Drum-taps, and sequel to drum-taps, 1859-1867
- "The most perfect pilot": the problem of desire and the struggle for poetric agency
- "To learn from the crises of anguish": tragedy, history and the meaning of democratic mourning
- Part III Prophet of democracy: democratic vistas, 1871-- "the divine literature comes": religion and poetry in the cultication of democratic selfhood
- conclusion: toward an organic democracy.