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UNINA9910145268503321 |
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Folsom Ed <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Re-scripting Walt Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to his life and work / / Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-19839-7 |
9786610198399 |
0-470-77493-2 |
1-4051-4468-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Blackwell introductions to literature |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poets, American - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Growing up in the age of accelerating print : Whitman as printer, journalist, teacher, and fiction writer -- "Many manuscript doings and undoings" : the road toward Leaves of grass -- "I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us" : the first and second editions of Leaves of grass -- Intimate script and the New American Bible : "Calamus" and the making of the 1860 Leaves of grass -- Blood-stained memoranda -- Reconstructing Leaves of grass, restructuring a life -- Dying into leaves -- What Whitman left us. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. · An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. · Weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. · Focuses especially on Whitman's evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass. · Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman's "scripted life", including his original manuscripts. · Investigates Whitman's "life in print" - his belief that he could literally embody himself in his books. · Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman's work at www.whitmanarchive.org. |
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