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Product Identifiers

PublisherMacmillan Education UK

ISBN-10184046240X

ISBN-139781840462401

eBay Product ID (ePID)11038599620

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXii, 175 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePoetry of Walt Whitman

Publication Year2003

SubjectAmerican / General, Poetry

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorWalt. Whitman, Nick Selby

SeriesReaders' Guides to Essential Criticism Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-055878

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal811/.3

Table Of ContentIntroduction.- Early Reviews.- Whitman in the Early Twentieth Century.- Whitman and the 'American Renaissance'.- Whitman, Myth Criticism and the Growth of American Studies.- Whitman, Cultural Materialism and 'Reconstructive' Readings.- Ideology and Desire: Whitman and Sexuality.- Ideology and Deconstruction: Whitman and 'New Americanist' Critiques.- Bibliography.- Index.

SynopsisNick Selby assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Beginning with essays by Emerson and Whitman, and reviews of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855), this Readers' Guide discusses the literary expectations that Whitman transgressed, and continues by examining his gradual critical elevation into America's spokesman, its 'good gray poet', and his place in the growth of 'American Studies' in the 1940s and 1950s. In its final chapters the Guide explores postmodern, cultural materialist, and 'queer' readings of Whitman's poetry., This Readers' Guide assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Starting with early reviews, the guide moves through essays that elevate Whitman to America's spokesman, its 'good gray poet', and closes with essays that discuss Whitman in the light of postmodern, cultural materialist, and 'queer' reading practices. Nick Selby offers an overview of how the poet's critics have dealt with his work and its cultural legacy., This Readers' Guide assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Starting with early reviews, the guide moves through essays that elevate Whitman to America's spokesman, its "good gray poet", and closes with essays that discuss Whitman in the light of postmodern, cultural materialist, and "queer" reading practices. Nick Selby offers an overview of how the poet's critics have dealt with his work and its cultural legacy.

LC Classification NumberPN1-PN6790