The Evolution Of Walt Whitman

Author : Roger Asselineau
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380339
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Walt Whitman written by Roger Asselineau and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman was already articulated by Asselineau nearly half a century ago. Throughout its eight hundred pages, The Evolution of Walt Whitman speaks with authority on a vast range of topics that define both Whitman the man and Whitman the mythical personage. Remarkably, most of these discussions remain fresh and relevant, and that is in part because they have been so influential. In particular, The Evolution of Walt Whitman inaugurated the study of Leaves of Grass as a lifelong work in progress, and it marked the end of the habit of talking about Leaves as if it were a single unified book. Asselineau saw Whitman's poetry “not as a body of static data but as a constantly changing continuum whose evolution must be carefully observed.” Throughout Evolution, Asselineau placed himself in the role of the observer, analyzing Whitman's development with a kind of scientific detachment. But behind this objective persona burned the soul of a risk taker who was willing to rewrite Whitman studies by bravely proposing what was then a controversial biographical source for Whitman's art—his homosexual desires. The Evolution of Walt Whitman is a reminder that extraordinary works of criticism never exist in and of themselves. In this expanded edition, Roger Asselineau has provided a new essay summarizing his own continuing journey with Whitman. A foreword by Ed Folsom, editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly, regards Evolution as the genesis of contemporary Whitman studies.

Author : Roger Asselineau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Walt Whitman: The creation of a personality written by Roger Asselineau and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman was already articulated by Asselineau nearly half a century ago. Throughout its eight hundred pages, The Evolution of Walt Whitman speaks with authority on a vast range of topics that define both Whitman the man and Whitman the mythical personage. Remarkably, most of these discussions remain fresh and relevant, and that is in part because they have been so influential. In particular, The Evolution of Walt Whitman inaugurated the study of Leaves of Grass as a lifelong work in progress, and it marked the end of the habit of talking about Leaves as if it were a single unified book. Asselineau saw Whitman's poetry ́not as a body of static data but as a constantly changing continuum whose evolution must be carefully observed.́ Throughout Evolution, Asselineau placed himself in the role of the observer, analyzing Whitman's development with a kind of scientific detachment. But behind this objective persona burned the soul of a risk taker who was willing to rewrite Whitman studies by bravely proposing what was then a controversial biographical source for Whitman's art́his homosexual desires. The Evolution of Walt Whitman is a reminder that extraordinary works of criticism never exist in and of themselves. In this expanded edition, Roger Asselineau has provided a new essay summarizing his own continuing journey with Whitman. A foreword by Ed Folsom, editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly, regards Evolution as the genesis of contemporary Whitman studies.

Author : Martin T. Buinicki
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380703
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman's Reconstruction written by Martin T. Buinicki and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Walt Whitman, living and working in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War, Reconstruction meant not only navigating these tumultuous years alongside his fellow citizens but also coming to terms with his own memories of the war. Just as the work of national reconstruction would continue long past its official end in 1877, Whitman’s own reconstruction would continue throughout the remainder of his life as he worked to revise his poetic project—and his public image—to incorporate the disasters that had befallen the Union. In this innovative and insightful analysis of the considerable poetic and personal reimagining that is the hallmark of these postwar years, Martin Buinicki reveals the ways that Whitman reconstructed and read the war. The Reconstruction years would see Whitman transformed from newspaper editor and staff journalist to celebrity contributor and nationally recognized public lecturer, a transformation driven as much by material developments in the nation as by his own professional and poetic ambitions while he expanded and cemented his place in the American literary landscape. Buinicki places Whitman’s postwar periodical publications and business interests in context, closely examining his “By the Roadside” cluster as well as MemorandaDuring the War and Specimen Days as part of his larger project of personal and artistic reintegration. He traces Whitman’s shifting views of Ulysses S. Grant as yet another way to understand the poet’s postwar life and profession and reveals the emergence of Whitman the public historian at the end of Reconstruction. Whitman’s personal reconstruction was political, poetic, and public, and his prose writings, like his poetry, formed a major part of the postwar figure that he presented to the nation. Looking at the poet’s efforts to absorb the war into his own reconstruction narrative, Martin Buinicki provides striking new insights into the evolution of Whitman’s views and writings.

Author : Jan Christiaan Smuts
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Asselineau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835791595
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Evolution of Walt Whitman written by Roger Asselineau and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Asselineau
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Download or read book The Evolution of Walt Whitman: The creation of a personality written by Roger Asselineau and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Asselineau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book The Evolution of Walt Whitman written by Roger Asselineau and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Asselineau
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Download or read book The Evolution of Walt Whitman written by Roger Asselineau and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pasquale Jannaccone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Evolution of Rhythmic Forms, and Walt Whitman's Thought and Art written by Pasquale Jannaccone and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walt Whitman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book Song of Myself ... written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: