The Whitman Revolution

Author : Betsy Erkkila
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609387228

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The Whitman Revolution by Betsy Erkkila Pdf

The Whitman Revolution brings together a rich collection of Betsy Erkkila’s phenomenally influential essays that have been published over the years, along with two powerful new essays. Erkkila offers a moving account of the inseparable mix of the spiritual-sexual-political in Whitman and the absolute centrality of male-male connection to his work and thinking. Her work has been at the forefront of scholarship positing that Whitman’s songs are songs not only of workers and occupations but of sex and the body, homoeroticism, and liberation. What is more, Erkkila’s writing demonstrates that this sexuality and communal impulse is central to Whitman’s revolutionary poetry and his conception of democracy itself—an insight that was all but suppressed during the mid-twentieth century emergence of American literature as a field of study. Highlights of this collection include Erkkila’s essays on pairings such as Marx and Whitman, Dickinson and Whitman, and Melville and Whitman. Across the volume, she demonstrates an international vision that highlights the place of Leaves of Grass within a global struggle for democracy. The Whitman Revolution is evidence of Erkkila’s remarkable ability to lead critical discussions, and marks an exciting event in Whitman studies.

Author : Betsy Erkkila
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History and criticism
ISBN : 9780195113808

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Whitman the Political Poet by Betsy Erkkila Pdf

Erkkila's aim is to repair the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political and the poet and the history that has governed the analysis and evaluation of Whitman and his work in the past.

Author : Alan Filreis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469606637

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Counter-revolution of the Word by Alan Filreis Pdf

During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry and poetics. Although the antimodernists expressed their disapproval through ideological language, their hatred of experimental poetry was ultimately not political but aesthetic, Filreis argues. By analyzing correspondence, decoding pseudonyms, drawing new connections through the archives, and conducting interviews, Filreis shows that an informal network of antimodernists was effective in suppressing or distorting the postwar careers of many poets whose work had appeared regularly in the 1930s. Insofar as modernism had consorted with radicalism in the Red Decade, antimodernists in the 1950s worked to sever those connections, fantasized a formal and unpolitical pre-Depression High Modern moment, and assiduously sought to de-radicalize the remnant avant-garde. Filreis's analysis provides new insight into why experimental poetry has aroused such fear and alarm among American conservatives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458723048

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Counter-Revolution of the Word (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter J. Bellis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820334615

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Writing Revolution by Peter J. Bellis Pdf

In recent years, formalist and deconstructive approaches to literary studies have been under attack, charged by critics with isolating texts as distinctive aesthetic or linguistic objects, separate from their social and historical contexts. Historicist and cultural approaches have often responded by simply reversing the picture, reducing texts to no more than superstructural effects of historical or ideological forces. In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with—rather than escape from or obscure—social and political issues. Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Bellis's subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine American identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society. Hawthorne, Bellis contends, sees the romance as "neutral territory" where the Imaginary and the Actual—the aesthetic and the historical—can interpenetrate and address crucial issues of class, race, and technological modernity. Whitman conceives of Leaves of Grass as a transformative democratic space where all forms of meditation, both political and literary, are swept away. Thoreau oscillates between these two approaches. Walden, like the romance, aims to fashion a mediating space between nature and society. His abolitionist essays, however, shift sharply away from both linguistic representation and the political, toward an apocalyptic cleansing violence. In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community.

Author : Gay Wilson Allen,Ed Folsom
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587290046

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Walt Whitman and the World by Gay Wilson Allen,Ed Folsom Pdf

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1904 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN : CUB:U183019976967

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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : J.R. LeMaster,Donald D. Kummings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136700705

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman by J.R. LeMaster,Donald D. Kummings Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, Jr., Roger Asselineau, Betsy Erkkila, and Joel Myerson. Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume comprises more than 750 entries arranged in convenient alphabetical format. Coverage includes: biographical information: all names, dates, places, and events important to understanding Whitman's life and careerWhitman's works: essays on all eight editions of Leaves of Grass, major poems and poem clusters, principal essays and prose works, as well as his more than two dozen short stories and the novel, Franklin Evansprominent themes and concepts: essays on such major topics as democracy, slavery, the Civil War, immortality, sexuality, and the women's rights movement.significant forms and techniques: such as prosody, symbolism, free verse, and humourimportant trends and critical approaches in Whitman studies: including new historicist and cultural criticism, psychological explorations, and controversial issues of sexual identitysurveys of Whitman's international impact as well as an assessment of his literary legacy. Useful for students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and Whitman devotees, this volume features extensive cross-references, numerous photographs of the poet, a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry includes a bibliography for further study.

Author : J. R. LeMaster,Donald D. Kummings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 9780815318767

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Walt Whitman by J. R. LeMaster,Donald D. Kummings Pdf

Includes almost 760 entries ranging in length from 3,100 words on the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass to 140 words on Elizabeth Leavitt Keller. Entries include biographical data; thematic, formal and technical considerations; discussions of the poet's social and personal life; and commentary on all of Whitman's works, including poem clusters, major poems, essays, and lesser known works such as the novel Franklin Evans and two dozen short stories. A chronology and genealogy are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Massachusetts Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89058627381

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Historical Memoranda, with Lists of Members and Their Revolutionary Ancestors by Sons of the American Revolution. Massachusetts Society Pdf

Author : Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000117881668

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Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution by Daughters of the American Revolution Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436768144

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An American Primer (1904) by Walt Whitman Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Scott Giantvalley
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015037365775

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Walt Whitman, 1838-1939 by Scott Giantvalley Pdf

Geannoteerde bibliografie van boeken en art. over de Amerikaanse dichter W. Whitman. Chronologisch geordend met index van auteurs, tijdschriften en onderwerpen.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015078319970

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Walt Whitman Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pāppaṇṇā Paramēsvaran̲
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002334413

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Bharathidaasan and Walt Whitman as Revolutionary Poets by Pāppaṇṇā Paramēsvaran̲ Pdf