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

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [2002]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.3; 811/.3
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - Asia
• Soggetto geografico: Asia In literature
• Altri autori: FolsomEd <1947->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Whitman East and West
• ISBN: 1-58729-421-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814460303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iowa Whitman series.