A companion to Walt Whitman /

Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America's greatest poets. Timed to contribute to the year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Whitm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kummings, Donald D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2006.
Colección:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 40.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Critique et interprétation > Guides, manuels, etc.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
handbooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Donald d. Kummings
  • PART I: THE LIFE: Whitman's life and work, 1819-92 / Gregory Eiselein
  • PART II: THE CULTURAL CONTEXT: Journalism / Douglas A. Noverr
  • The city / William Pannpacker
  • Labor and laborers / M. Wynn Thomas
  • Politics / Gary Wihl
  • Oratory / J.R. LeMaster
  • Slavery and race / Martin Klammer
  • Nation and identity / Eldrid Herrington
  • A theory of organic democracy / Stephen John Mack
  • Imperialism / Walter Grunzweig
  • Sexuality / Maire Mullins
  • Gender / Sherry Ceniza
  • Religion and the poet-prophet / David Kuebrich
  • Science and pseudoscience / Harold Aspiz
  • Nineteenth-century popular culture / Brett Barney
  • Opera and other kinds of music / Kathy Rugoff
  • Nineteenth-century visual culture / Ed Folsom
  • Civil War / Luke Mancuso
  • Nature / A. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • Death and the afterlife / William J. Scheick
  • Twentieth-Century mass media appearances / Andrew Jewell and Kenneth M. Price
  • PART III: THE LITERARY CONTEXT: Language / Tyler Huffman
  • Style / James Perrin Warren
  • Literary contemporaries / Joann P. Krieg
  • The poet's reception and legacy / Andrew C. Higgins
  • PART IV: TEXTS: WORKS OF POETRY: The first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass / Edward Whitley
  • "Song of Myself" / Kerry C. Larson
  • "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" / James Dougherty
  • "One of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" / Howard Nelson
  • "Live Oak, with Moss," "Calamus," and "Children of Adam" / Susan Olson-Smith
  • Civil War poems in "Drum-Taps" and "Memories of President Lincoln" / Ted Genoways
  • PROSE WORKS: Democratic Vistas / Robert Leigh Davis
  • Specimen Days / Martin G. Murray
  • The prose writings: selected secondary sources / Donald D. Kummings.

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