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Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful
Author | : Harold Aspiz |
Publsiher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004288463 |
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Whitman Possessed
Author | : Mark Maslan |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2001-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801867010 |
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Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his works in relation to nineteenth-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration, and political representation, Maslan argues that the disintegration of individuality in Whitman's texts is not meant to undermine cultural hierarchies, but to make poetic and political authority newly viable. In particular, Maslan explores the social impact of nineteenth-century sexual hygiene literature on Whitman's works. He argues that Whitman developed his ideas about poetry, sexuality, and authority by responding to a prominent argument that desire subjected male bodies to a penetrating and feminizing force. By identifying poetic inspiration with this erotic dynamic, Whitman imbued his poetic voice with a kind of transformative power. Whitman aligned his poetry with an impartial authority hard to find elsewhere and inclined his work as a poet to speak for the voiceless, for the masses, and for an entire nation.
Poems by Walt Whitman
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781473362222 |
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Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry. Here are collected his finest poems, a perfect companion for any fan of Whitman's work.
Leaves of Grass
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : MINN:31951002415170D |
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Walt Whitman
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781438115900 |
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Presents a critical analysis of some of the works of Walt Whitman including a short biography.
Healing the Republic
Author | : Joan Burbick |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1994-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521454344 |
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In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers, and literary artists in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. These "fictions" of health include annual reports of mental asylums, home physician manuals, social reform books, and novels consumed by the middle class that functioned as cautionary tales of well-being. Read together these writings engage in a counterpoint of voices at once constructing and debating the hegemonic values of the emerging American nation. That political values flow from the daily exigencies of survival and enjoyment is one of the claims advanced by theorists of cultural hegemony. Broadening this assumption, the narratives of health presented here address the demands and desires of everyday life and construct a national discourse with directives on control, authority, and subordination. They articulate the wish for a healthy citizenry, freed of pain and saturated with well-being, and they insist upon specific ideologies and knowledges of the body in order to achieve this radiance of health. Divided into two parts, the work first examines the structures of authority found in health narratives and then studies the topology of the body found in a cross section of writings. The first part examines how the authority of "common sense" is pitted against that of physiological law and its transcendent "constitution" for the body. The second analyzes how specific knowledges about the brain, heart, nerves, and eye provide individual "keys" to health, indices that reveal the conflicts inherent in American nationalism. In studying thesenarratives of health, Healing the Republic confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America. Fearing the political freedom they hoped to embrace. Americans designed ways to control the body in the effort to create, impose, or encompass social order in a corporeal politics whose influences are felt to this day.
Walt Whitman s Mystical Ethics of Comradeship
Author | : Juan A. Hererro Brasas |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-03-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438430126 |
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Recovers Walt Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.
Walt Whitman and the Earth
Author | : M. Jimmie Killingsworth |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781587295164 |
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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.