Whitman the Political PoetOxford University Press, 1989 - 360 oldal Recent critical studies have emphasized the formal, mystical, and psychological dimensions of Walt Whitman's art, dwelling mainly upon his Emersonian and Transcendental sources. This study is the first book to undertake a detailed analysis of Whitman's entire work in relation to the political struggles of the 19th century. Erkkila repairs the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political, the poet and history, that has in the past defined the analysis and evaluation of Whitman's work. Her approach combines close reading and historicist analysis, examining his poems as both products and agents of the political culture of his time. Among the topics explored are the ways in which the politics of race, class, gender, capital, technology, western expansion, and war enter into the poetic design of "Leaves of Grass"; the relation between Whitman's (homo)sexual body and the body politic of his poems; and the ways in which the Civil War and its aftermath affected Whitman's artistic ordering and reordering of his work. |
Tartalomjegyzék
1 A Revolutionary Formation | 3 |
2 The Paradox of the American Republic | 25 |
3 The Poet of Slaves and the Masters of Slaves | 44 |
4 Aesthetics and Politics | 68 |
5 Leaves of Grass and the Body Politic | 92 |
6 The Fractured State | 129 |
7 Democracy and HomoSexual Desire | 155 |
8 The Union War | 190 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
American republic American Revolution amid artistic battle body Boston Brooklyn Calamus Calamus poems celebrate cited Civil contradiction Corr crisis Critical culture demo democracy Democratic Vistas divine dream Drum-Taps economy edition of Leaves Emerson experience faith female figure final Frances Wright freedom future Gay Wilson Allen homosexual human ideals ideology individual Jefferson labor land language Leaves of Grass liberty Lilacs Lincoln Lincoln's death lines literary literature masses Memoranda mother myth nature notebook paradox party Passage to India poem's poet poet's poetic poetry political post-Civil present President radical reader regenerative republican Revolution revolutionary rhetoric Richard Maurice Bucke says sense Sequel sequence sexual slave slavery social soldiers Song soul Specimen Days spiritual struggle Subsequent references symbolic tion traditional Union University Press verse vision voice Walt Whitman Washington Whit Whitman wrote Whitman's poems woman women words writing York