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The Poetry of Walt Whitman: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

Autor Nick Selby
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 noi 2003
Nick 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781840462401
ISBN-10: 184046240X
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:2003
Editura: Macmillan Education UK
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Descriere

ThisReaders' Guideassembles 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.

Cuprins

Introduction.- 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.

Notă biografică

NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Nick 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.

Caracteristici

Includes a comprehensive collection of critical essays, reviews and articles
Places the secondary criticism within a cultural and historical context