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Author: Matt Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1108419062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights the latest currents in Whitman scholarship and demonstrates how Whitman's work transforms discussions in literary studies.
Author: Joanna Levin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 1108311474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
Author: M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-03-08
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1139462288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.
Author: C. K. Williams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0691176108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
Author: Ezra Greenspan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-06-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 113982516X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature and ambiguity: Whitman and photography, Whitman and feminist scholarship, Whitman and modernism, Whitman and the poetics of address, Whitman and the poetics of present participles, Whitman and Borges, Whitman and Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Civil War, Whitman and the politics of his era, and Whitman and the changing nature of his style in his later years. Addressed to an audience of students and general readers and written in a nontechnical prose designed to promote accessibility to the study of Whitman, this volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.
Author: David Haven Blake
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1587296381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present invigorates Whitman studies by garnering insights from a diverse group of writers and intellectuals. Writing from the perspectives of art history, political theory, creative writing, and literary criticism, the contributors place Whitman in the center of both world literature and American public life. The volume is especially notable for being the best example yet published of what the editors call the New Textuality in Whitman studies, an emergent mode of criticism that focuses on the different editions of Whitman’s poems as independent works of art.
Author: Suzanne del Gizzo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1108849148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of endless biographies, fictional depictions, and critical debate, Ernest Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. He remains both a definitive stylist of twentieth-century literature and a case study in what happens to an artist consumed by the spectacle of celebrity. The New Hemingway Studies examines how two decades of new-millennium scholarship confirm his continued relevance to an era that, on the surface, appears so distinct from his—one defined by digital realms, ecological anxiety, and globalization. It explores the various sources (print, archival, digital, and other) through which critics access Hemingway. Highlighting the latest critical trends, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how Hemingway's remarkably durable stories, novels, and essays have served as a lens for understanding preeminent concerns in our own time, including paranoia, trauma, iconicity, and racial, sexual, and national identities.
Author: Joanna Freer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108474462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.
Author: Kenneth M. Price
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005-10-12
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0807876119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed to the ongoing process of shaping the character of the United States. Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as those of writers who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. He focuses on fictional works by Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Naylor, among others. In Price's study, Leaves of Grass emerges as a living document accruing meanings that evolve with time and with new readers, with Whitman and his words regularly pulled into debates over immigration, politics, sexuality, and national identity. As Price demonstrates, Whitman is a recurring starting point, a provocation, and an irresistible, rewritable text for those who reinvent the icon in their efforts to remake America itself.
Author: Cody Marrs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108484034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
