Revisiting Walt Whitman
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Revisiting Walt Whitman

On the Occasion of his 200th Birthday

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  2. English
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Revisiting Walt Whitman

On the Occasion of his 200th Birthday

About this book

The collection of essays explores the transnational and intermedial (music, visual arts, digital media) legacy of Walt Whitman. It provides examples of his influence as well as suggestive parallels in contemporary poetry and thought. One common concern is the question of Whitman's understanding of democracy and its consequences for poetry and art. Revisiting Whitman has no revisionist agenda. Nor is it nearly celebratory: it also shows tensions and ambivalences in the oeuvre of "The Good Gray Poet."

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Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9783631782064
eBook ISBN
9783631782347
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction (Winfried Herget)
  4. Matthew Aucoin’s Opera Crossing (2015): Reinventing Walt Whitman for the Twenty-First Century (Nassim Winnie Balestrini)
  5. Walt Whitman in Music: Cosmos, Eros, Mourning (Lawrence Kramer)
  6. Walt Whitman and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Hieroglyphics of Expression (Margit Peterfy)
  7. Whitman and Everything: Playing with the Poetics of Scale (Sascha Pöhlmann)
  8. Saluting Lumumba: The Global Whitman Network and Intermedia (Walter GrĂŒnzweig)
  9. Oceanic Poetics: Walt Whitman across Pacific Currents (Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt)
  10. Life Writing and Diversity: Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself (Alfred Hornung)
  11. Visions of a Democratic Poetry: Tocqueville – Emerson – Whitman (Winfried Herget)
  12. Walt Whitman: Metonymy, Contingency, and the Democracy of it All (Thomas Claviez)
  13. “Songs” and “Inventories”: Democratic Literature, the 19th-Century Data Imaginary, and the Narrative Liminality of the Poetic Catalog (Sebastian M. Herrmann)
  14. “The priest departs, the divine literatus comes”: Walt Whitman and Pragmatism (Ulf Schulenberg)
  15. Through the Philosopher’s Lens: Whitman and Martha Nussbaum (Elisabeth Hecker-Bretschneider)
  16. Military Medicine, Emotional Healing and a Reborn Community in Memoranda During the War (Marek Paryz)
  17. On the Poetics of Creative Supremacy: Walt Whitman’s “Manly Health and Training” (Dustin Breitenwischer)
  18. Walt Whitman’s Antagonistic Inheritors: Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams (Heinz Ickstadt)
  19. Whitman in the Engine Room: MacKnight Black’s American Futurism (Stefan Schöberlein)
  20. ‘I, Too, Sing America’: Whitmanian Democratic Community in Langston Hughes (Sabine Kim)
  21. From First Person, Singular to Second Person, Plural: Walt Whitman’s and Ralph Ellison’s Visions of Democracy (Lars Kiesel)
  22. List of Contributors