Walt Whitman's Native Representations

ISBN-13: 9780521585729 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 218 str.

Ed Folsom; Walt Whitman; Albert Gelpi

Opis

Walt Whitman looked to many different areas of American culture to develop a distinctively American poetry. This book investigates four of the areas he found most fertile for his own poetic development: the evolution of American dictionaries, the growth of the national sport of baseball, the decimation of American Indians, and the development of American photography. From each of these cultural activities, Whitman absorbed key aesthetic lessons that helped him compose his poetry.

Recenzje

"..an entertaining and well-researched critical commentary on Whitman..." Review

Spis treści

Preface: Walt Whitman and …; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Wording the future'; 1. Whitman and dictionaries; 2. Whitman and baseball; 3. Whitman and American Indians; 4. Whitman and photography; 5. Whitman and photographs of the self.