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Author : Charles Twitchell Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Problem of an American Tradition written by Charles Twitchell Davis and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth M. Price
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876119
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book To Walt Whitman, America written by Kenneth M. Price and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt 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 : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Robert Willingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Whitman Tradition in Recent American Literature written by John Robert Willingham and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeanetta Boswell
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Critics written by Jeanetta Boswell and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Philomel
ISBN 13 : 9780399218088
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book I Hear America Singing written by Walt Whitman and published by Philomel. This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitman's famous poem, accompanied by linoleum-cut illustrations, depicts people at work all over an earlier America.
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722525053
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. “Song of Myself”, a portion of Whitman’s monumental poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed of all American poems, it is written in Whitman’s signature free verse style, without a regular form, meter, or rhythm. His lines have a mesmerizing chant-like quality, as he sought to make poetry more appealing. Few poems are as fun to read aloud as this one. Considered to be the core of his poetic vision, this poem is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world in 1855. It is exhilarating, epic, and fresh in its brilliant and fascinating diction and wordplay as it tries to capture the unique meaning of words of the day, while also embracing the rapidly evolving vocabularies of the sciences and the streets. Far ahead of its time, it was considered by many social conservatives to be scandalous and obscene for its depiction of sexuality and desire, while at the same time, critics hailed the poem as a modern masterpiece. This first version of “Song of Myself” is far superior to the later versions and will delight readers with the playfulness of its diction as it glorifies the self, body, and soul. “I am large, I contain multitudes,”
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434450651
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Americanness of Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on problems in American civilization, prepared by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College.
Author : Clive Bush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (995 download)
Download or read book "Posts of the Good" written by Clive Bush and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Passage to India written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Walt Whitman Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Bard written by Walt Whitman and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen John Mack
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatic Whitman written by Stephen John Mack and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman’s particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition. Mack analyzes Whitman's democratic vision both in its parts and as a whole; he also describes the ways in which Whitman's vision evolved throughout his career. He argues that Whitman initially viewed democratic values such as individual liberty and democratic processes such as collective decision-making as fundamental, organic principles, free and unregulated. But throughout the 1860s and 1870s Whitman came to realize that democracy entailed processes of human agency that are more deliberate and less natural—that human destiny is largely the product of human effort, and a truly humane society can be shaped only by intelligent human efforts to govern the forces that would otherwise govern us. Mack describes the foundation of Whitman’s democracy as found in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass, examines the ways in which Whitman’s 1859 sexual crisis and the Civil War transformed his democratic poetics in “Sea-Drift,” “Calamus,” Drum-Taps,and Sequel to Drum-Taps, and explores Whitman’s mature vision in Democratic Vistas, concluding with observations on its moral and political implications today. Throughout, he illuminates Whitman's great achievement—learning that a full appreciation for the complexities of human life meant understanding that liberty can take many different and conflicting forms—and allows us to contemplate the relevance of that achievement at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Author : Joseph J. Kwiat
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816660387
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Studies in American Culture written by Joseph J. Kwiat and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in American Culture was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The last decade has seen a revolutionary interest at colleges and universities both in this country and abroad in the field known variously as American Studies, American Civilization, or American Culture. Now the time is ripe for a critical look at the field, to assess its intellectual and cultural problems, and to anticipate its future. This is what the contributors to this volume do, through thoughtful discussions and interesting examples of studies in American ideas and images. There are sixteen contributors, members of the faculties of a number of colleges and universities, and representatives of various specialties such as literary history and criticism; social, intellectual, and aesthetic history; political, economic, and social theory. In the introductory chapter, Henry Nash Smith discusses the problems of method which confront scholars in American Studies. The chapters which follow contain outstanding examples of scholarship in American Studies. The authors are Reuel Denney, John W. Ward, Mulford Q. Sibley, David R. Weimer, William Van O'Connor, Bernard Bowron, Leo Marx, Arnold Rose, Allen Tate, David W. Noble, J. C. Levenson, Joseph J. Kwiat, Theodore C. Blegen, and Charles H. Foster. In the final chapter, Robert E. Spiller looks at the past, present, and future of American Studies. All the contributors as well as the editors are now or have been associated with the American Studies program at the University of Minnesota and with the late Tremaine McDowell, chairman of the program for thirteen years and a pioneer in the development of the discipline. The book will be useful to anyone interested in American thought, culture, and society, to those conducting American Studies programs, and to their students.
Author : Stephen Fredman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521443036
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Grounding of American Poetry written by Stephen Fredman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His argument focuses on four pairs of poets - Eliot/Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan, and Whitman/Creeley - and points out that although Williams, Olson, Duncan, and Creeley are all influenced by these predecessors to some extent, ultimately their poetry is, paradoxically, grounded in an essential groundlessness.
Author : Geoffrey M. Sill
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498428
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Walt Whitman of Mickle Street written by Geoffrey M. Sill and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478201
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)
Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
