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Author | : M. Jimmie Killingsworth |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1469620634 |
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This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works. Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's "poetry of the body" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, traditional poetics, and conservative politics. The sexual relation, with its promise of unity, love, equality, interpenetration, and productivity for partners, becomes a metaphor for all political and social relationships, including that of poet and reader. The effect of the poems is protopolitical, an altering of consciousness about the body's relation to other bodies, a shifting of the categories of knowledge that foretells political action. Killingsworth traces the interplay in Whitman's poetry between sexual and textual themes that derive from Whitman's political response to the historical turbulence of mid-century America. He describes a subtle shift in Whitman's prose writings on poetics, which turn from a view of poetry in the early 1850s as morally and politically efficacious to a chastened romanticism in the postwar years that frees the poet from responsibility for the world outside his poems. Later editions of Leaves of Grass are marked by the poet's deliberate repression of erotic themes in favor of a depoliticized aestheticism that views art not as a motivator of political and moral action but as an artifact embodying the soul of the genius.
Author | : Walt Whitman |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Download Leaves of Grass Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Download Poems by Walt Whitman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Harold Aspiz |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : American poetry |
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Download Song of Myself ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mark Doty |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1324006056 |
Download What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1556439105 |
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"Earth, My Likeness is a collection of poetry by Walt Whitman that focuses on nature and contains much of his best and most vital work accompanied by beautiful watercolor illustrations"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2010-03-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781450542043 |
Download I Sing the Body Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a full-color, illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's exquisite cycle of poems, "Children of Adam." Includes "I Sing the Body Electric," "From Pent Up Aching Rivers," and 14 other poems.
Author | : Walt Whitman |
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Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Download The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman: Leaves of grass Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1255 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141919833 |
Download The Complete Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric' to the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Whitman's art fuses oratory, journalism and song in a vivid celebration of humanity.