Edited book
Whitman East and West: new contexts for reading Walt Whitman
The Iowa Whitman series, University of Iowa Press
2002
Abstract
"In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's poetry and prose continue to be meaningful at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering a broad range of issues - from ecology to children's literature, gay identity to China's May 4th Movement, nineteenth-century New York politics to the emerging field of normality studies, Mao Zedong to American film - each original essay opens a previously unexplored field of study, and each yields new insights by demonstrating how emerging methodologies and approaches intersect with and illuminate Whitman's ideas about democracy, sexuality, America, and the importance of literature." "Scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America set out to track the ways in which Whitman's poetry has become part of China's cultural landscape as well as the literary landscapes of other countries. By describing his assimilation into other cultures and his resulting transformation into a hybrid poet, these essayists celebrate Whitman's multiple manifestations in other languages and contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Whitman East and West: new contexts for reading Walt Whitman
- Contributors
- Ed Folsom (Editor) - University of Iowa, English
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press; Iowa City
- Series
- The Iowa Whitman series
- ISBN
- 9780877458210; 0877458219
- Number of pages
- xxiv, 243 pages
- Alternative title
- Whitman East & West
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2002
- Academic Unit
- English; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983992394102771
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