Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Editions-Typ
ISBN-13
978-0-674-25898-3 (9780674258983)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents A Note on Citations Preface Introduction Part I: Song of Ourselves I Celebrate Myself Undisguised and Naked The Marriage of Self and Soul The Grass All In A Vision of Democracy These States Songs of Triumph Poet of the Body The Sun The Generative God The Animals Walt Becomes Other A Massacre A Sea Fight American Jesus Democratic Goetterdaemmerung Walt and the Priests Walt's God Walt and the Reader Death and Democracy Part II: In the Hospitals Publication In Washington Letters Home Tom Sawyer The Vision Completed Part III: Song of Myself (1855) Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
