Breaking Bounds - Whitman and American Cultural Studies

Zusatztext In Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, one of the most diverse, important, exciting, and responsible collections of critical essays on Whitman ever published, Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman have brought together a body of literary and cultural criticism that seeks to undo the academic structures and strictures that erase the vital, conspicuous, special relationship between the political and sexual in Whitman's life and work. Klappentext The authors reinvigorate the study of Walt 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 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. (Poetry) 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), Jay Gossman (Editor), Jay (Mellon Fellow Gossman (Editor), Jay Grossman (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9780195093506
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509350-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies