Matt Miller

Collage of Myself (eBook, PDF)

Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass

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Produktbeschreibung

Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman¿who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play¿was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all.

Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers." Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to "cut and paste" his lines into ever-evolving forms based on what he called "spinal ideas." This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later known as collage,...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803234420
• Artikelnr.: 37844291

Autorenporträt

Matt Miller is an assistant professor of English at Yeshiva University. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Book History, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations   000
Acknowledgments   000
Introduction      000
List of Abbreviations   000
1. How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks   000
2. Packing and Unpacking the First Leaves of Grass    000
3. Kosmos Poets and Spinal Ideas    000
4. Poems of Materials   000
5. Whitman after Collage / Collage after Whitman      000
Notes 000
Bibliography      000
Index 000