The Poetry of Walt Whitman

Informationen zum Autor NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow. Klappentext Nick Selby assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Beginning with essays by Emerson and Whitman, and reviews of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855), this Readers' Guide discusses the literary expectations that Whitman transgressed, and continues by examining his gradual critical elevation into America's spokesman, its 'good gray poet', and his place in the growth of 'American Studies' in the 1940s and 1950s. In its final chapters the Guide explores postmodern, cultural materialist, and 'queer' readings of Whitman's poetry. Zusammenfassung Nick Selby assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Early Reviews Whitman in the Early Twentieth Century Whitman and the 'American Renaissance' Whitman, Myth Criticism and the Growth of American Studies Whitman, Cultural Materialism and 'Reconstructive' Readings Ideology and Desire: Whitman and Sexuality Ideology and Deconstruction: Whitman and 'New Americanist' Critiques Bibliography Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Selby
• Assisted by: Nick Selby (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2003
• EAN: 9781403933164
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-3316-4
• No. of pages: 175
• Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers Guides to Essential Cr; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, America—Literatures, North American Literature, America;poet;poetry;Renaissance;twentieth century