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WALT WHITMAN'S NATIVE REPRESENTATIONS
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| By: |
Ed Folsom, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521585724 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521585729 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 May, 1997 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture No. 80 |
| Pages: |
218 |
| Description: |
This 1994 book investigates how the development of phenomena such as American dictionaries, baseball, American Indian policy and photography shaped Whitman's democratic poetics. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
14 b/w illus. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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