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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Killingsworth, M. Jimmie (1952-....)
Titre(s) : The Cambridge introduction to Walt Whitman [Texte imprimé] / M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge university press, 2007
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-139 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge introductions to literature
Lien à la collection : Cambridge introductions to literature
Comprend : Chapter 1: Life ; Youth and literary apprenticeship (1819-1850) ; The emergence
of the poet (1851-1860) ; The war and its aftermath (1861-1873) ; The period of
reflection and decline (1873-1892) ; Chapter 2: Historical and cultural contexts
; Democracy ; The body ; The land ; The culture ; Chapter 3: Poetry before the
Civil War ; 1855: "Song of myself" ; Other poems dating from the 1855 Leaves of
Grass ; 1856: poems of sexuality and the body ; 1856: poems of the earth ; 1856:
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" ; 1860: Sea-Drift poems ; 1860: gendered clusters ; "Children
of Adam" and "Calamus" ; Chapter 4: Poetry after the Civil War ; Elegiac poems
; The emergence of the image ; Minor poetic modes ; Chapter 5: Prose works ; The
1855 preface ; Democratic Vistas ; Specimen Days ; Chapter 6: Critical reception
; The first fifty years, 1855-1905 ; 1905-1955 ; 1955-2005.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index
Focusing on his masterpiece 'Leaves of Grass', this volume offers a foundation for
the study of Whitman. Alongside close readings of his major texts, there are chapters
on Whitman's biography, the history & culture of his time, & the critical reception
of his work
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Walt Whitman
Sujet(s) : Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0521854563. - ISBN 9780521854566 : t. - ISBN 0521670942. - ISBN 9780521670944
EAN 9780521670944
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452723515
Notice n° :
FRBNF45272351
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