The pragmatic Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining American democracy / / Stephen John Mack |
Autore | Mack Stephen John <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.3 |
Collana | The Iowa Whitman series |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy in literature
Patriotic poetry, American - History and criticism Political poetry, American - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-58729-424-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency
Part II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450801903321 |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 | ||
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The pragmatic Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining American democracy / / Stephen John Mack |
Autore | Mack Stephen John <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.3 |
Collana | The Iowa Whitman series |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy in literature
Patriotic poetry, American - History and criticism Political poetry, American - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-58729-424-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency
Part II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777591703321 |
Mack Stephen John <1952->
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pragmatic Whitman : reimagining American democracy / / Stephen John Mack |
Autore | Mack Stephen John <1952-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.3 |
Collana | The Iowa Whitman series |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy in literature
Patriotic poetry, American - History and criticism Political poetry, American - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-58729-424-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency
Part II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819509803321 |
Mack Stephen John <1952->
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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