Re-scripting Walt Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to his life and work / / Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xv, 156 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 811/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poets, American - 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
PriceKenneth M
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Re-scripting Walt Whitman |
| ISBN: | 1-280-19839-7 |
| 9786610198399 | |
| 0-470-77493-2 | |
| 1-4051-4468-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910145268503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Blackwell introductions to literature.