Breaking Bounds - Whitman and American Cultural Studies

Klappentext Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies reinvigorates the study of Whitman and American culture by presenting essays that demonstrate Whitman's centrality to the widest range of social! political! literary! sexual! and cultural discourses of his time and ours. The volume assembles a distinguished group of cultural critics working in the fields of literature! American studies! Latin American studies! European studies! art history! and gay/lesbian/queer studies. Together they open new vistas in the ways we see Whitman and provide a model for the newest and brightest intellectual efforts associated with cultural studies. Central to the volume is breaking the bounds of decorum that have too long separated Whitman's sexuality from his politics! and his poetry from both. The Whitman that emerges from these collected essays is renewed for a new generation of readers seeking to define the places and the functions of his poetic words in the world. Breaking Bounds points to the interdisciplinary future of American literary and cultural studies and is essential reading for anyone interested in Whitman both inside and outside the academy. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays on Walt Whitman rejects the persistent tendency in Whitman studies to isolate his sexuality from his politics, and his poetry from both. The issue of his sexuality is instead brought into contact with a range of topics, from nationalism to gender.

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• Authors: Betsy (Professor Erkkila, Betsy Gossman Erkkila
• Assisted by: Betsy Erkkila (Editor), Betsy (Professor Erkkila (Editor), Erkkila Betsy (Editor), Jay Gossman (Editor), Jay (Mellon Fellow Gossman (Editor), Gossman Jay (Editor), Jay Grossman (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9780195093490
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509349-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics