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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450781503321

Titolo

Whitman East and West : new contexts for reading Walt Whitman / / edited by Ed Folsom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [2002]

ISBN

1-58729-421-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

The Iowa Whitman series

Altri autori (Persone)

FolsomEd <1947->

Disciplina

811.3

811/.3

Soggetti

Books and reading - Asia

Electronic books.

Asia In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; "Poets to Come . . . Leaving It to You to Prove and Dene It": Lucy Chen, Whitman, T. S. Eliot, and Poets UnknownBy James E. Miller Jr.; The Voluptuous Earth and the Fall of the Redwood Tree:  Whitman's Personications of Nature BY M. Jimmie Killingsworth; "O Divine Average!":Whitman's Poetry and the Production of Normality inNineteenth-Century American Culture BYWalter Grünzweig; Walt Whitman at the Movies:  Cultural Memory and the Politics of Desire BY Kenneth M. Price

"Where's Walt?":  Illustrated Editions of Whitman for Younger Readers BY Joel MyersonA Dream Still Invincible?:  The Matthiessen Tradition BY Robert K. Martin; Whitman's En Masse Aesthetics BYSherry Ceniza; Public Love: Whitman and Political Theory BY Betsy Erkkila; Representatives and Revolutionists:The New Urban Politics Revisited BYM. Wynn Thomas; Whitman on Asian Immigration and Nation-Formation BYGuiyou Huang; Whitman's Soul in China: Guo Moruo's Poetry in the New Culture Movement BYLiu Rongqiang; Pantheistic Ideas in Guo Moruo's The Goddesses and  Whitman's Leaves of Grass BY Ou Hong

Modernity and Whitman's Reception in Chinese Literature BYWang NingGu Cheng and Walt Whitman: In Search of New PoeticsBY Liu Shusen; Grass and Liquid Trees: The Cosmic Vision of Walt WhitmanBY



Roger Asselineau; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's poetry and prose continue to be meaningful at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering a broad range of issues--from ecology to children's literature, gay identity to China's May 4th Movement, nineteenth-century New York politics to the emerging field of normality studies, Mao Zedong to American film--each original essay opens a previously unexplored field of study, and each yields new insights by demonstrating how emerging methodologies and approaches intersect with and illuminate Whit