Ezra Greenspan (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

Herausgeber: Ezra, Greenspan; Greenspan, Ezra

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays brought together here examine a variety of contemporary issues in Whitman's life and art. Featuring a multiplicity of approaches, the collection mirrors at once the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the complex identity of the poet himself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521448079
• ISBN-10: 0521448077
• Artikelnr.: 21138764

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Chronology of Whitman's life
1. Introduction Ezra Greenspan
2. 'As if I were with you' - the performance of Whitman's poetry Stephen Railton
3. Fratricide and brotherly love: Whitman and the Civil War M. Wynn Thomas
4. Reading Whitman's post-war poetry James Perrin Warren
5. Politics and poetry: Leaves of Grass and the social crisis of the 1850s David S. Reynolds
6. Some remarks on the poetics of 'Participle-loving Whitman' Ezra Greenspan
7. 'Being a woman ... I wish to give my own view': some nineteenth-century women's responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass Sherry Ceniza
8. Appearing in print: illustrations of the self in Leaves of Grass Ed Folsom
9. 'I sing the body electric': Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the dance Ruth L. Bohan
10. Walt Whitman: precipitant of the modern Alan Trachtenberg
11. Borges's 'Song of myself' Fernando Alegría
Suggestions for further reading
Index
Whitman's writings.