| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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Iowa Whitman series |
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Iowa Whitman series.
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| Contents |
"Poets to come ... leaving it to you to prove and define it": Lucy Chen, Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and poets unknown / James E. Miller Jr.-- The voluptuous earth and the fall of the redwood tree: Whitman's personification of nature / M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- "O divine average!": Whitman's poetry and the production of normality in nineteenth-century American culture / Walter Grünzweig -- Walt Whitman at the movies: cultural memory and the politics of desire / Kenneth M. Price -- "Where's Walt?": illustrated editions of Whitman for younger readers / Joel Myerson -- A dream still invincible?: the Matthiessen tradition / Robert K. Martin -- Whitman's en masse aesthetics / Sherry Ceniza -- Public love: Whitman and political theory / Betsy Erkkila -- Representatives and revolutionists: the new urban politics revisited / M. Wynn Thomas -- Whitman on Asian immigration and nation-formation / Guiyou Huang -- Whitman's soul in China: Guo Moruo's poetry in the new culture movement / Liu Rongquiang -- Pantheistic ideas in Guo Moruo's The goddesses and Whitman's Leaves of grass / Ou Hong -- Modernity and Whitman's reception in Chinese literature / Wang Ning -- Gu Cheng and Walt Whitman: in search of new poetics / Liu Shusen -- Grass and liquid trees: the cosmic vision of Walt Whitman / Roger Asselineau |
| Summary |
In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's poetry and prose continue to be meaningful at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering a broad range of issues--from ecology to children's literature, gay identity to China's May 4th Movement, nineteenth-century New York politics to the emerging field of normality studies, Mao Zedong to American film--each original essay opens a previously unexplored field of study, and each yields new insights by demonstrating how emerging methodologies and approaches intersect with and illuminate Whit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Appreciation -- Asia
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Asia
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| SUBJECT |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast |
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Books and reading -- Asia
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Art appreciation
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Books and reading
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Literature
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Asia -- In literature
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Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Folsom, Ed, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
1587294214 |
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9781587294211 |
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