The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781139825160
ISBN-13 : 113982516X
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman written by Ezra Greenspan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature and ambiguity: Whitman and photography, Whitman and feminist scholarship, Whitman and modernism, Whitman and the poetics of address, Whitman and the poetics of present participles, Whitman and Borges, Whitman and Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Civil War, Whitman and the politics of his era, and Whitman and the changing nature of his style in his later years. Addressed to an audience of students and general readers and written in a nontechnical prose designed to promote accessibility to the study of Whitman, this volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.


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