Moving through Whitman's career four times from four different perspectives, this 1994 book investigates several major American cultural developments that occurred during Whitman's lifetime, the development of American dictionaries, the growth of baseball, the evolution of American Indian policy: the development of photography became essential components of Whitman's innovative poetics. Resisting the usual critical temptation to present a totalised, one-dimensional Whitman, this study views him instead as multiple and contradictory, a gatherer of discordant tones and clashing approaches from a variety of surprising cultural arenas. In such cultural activities, Whitman found not his poetic subject so much as his poetic tools and techniques. These cultural actions taught him how to make native representations.
| ISBN: | 9780521585729 |
| Publication date: | 28th May 1997 |
| Author: | Ed Folsom |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry and poets |
Moving through Whitman's career four times from four different perspectives, this 1994 book investigates several major American cultural developments that occurred during Whitman's lifetime, the development of American dictionaries, the growth of baseball, the evolution of American Indian policy: the development of photography became essential components of Whitman's innovative poetics. Resisting the usual critical temptation to present a totalised, one-dimensional Whitman, this study views him instead as multiple and contradictory, a gatherer of discordant tones and clashing approaches from a variety of surprising cultural arenas. In such cultural activities, Whitman found not his poetic subject so much as his poetic tools and techniques. These cultural actions taught him how to make native representations.
Walt Whitman's Native Representations features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry and poets
Walt Whitman's Native Representations is available in Paperback, Hardback
Walt Whitman's Native Representations was written by Ed Folsom and published by Cambridge University Press
Walt Whitman's Native Representations has 218 pages
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