Walt Whitman's Song of myself / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Song of myself.

Whitman, Walt.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 304 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Song of myself

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

Whitman's celebration of human complexity influenced generations of poets.

Contents:

"The password primeval" : Whitman's use of science in "Song of myself" / Robert J. Scholnick

Grass and its mate in "Song of myself" / William E. McMahon

Hegel's phenomenological dialectic and the structure of Whitman's "Song of myself" / Zong-qi Cai

Whitman's language of the self / Mark Bauerlein

Union and disunion in "Song of myself" / Herbert J. Levine

"Song of myself" as Whitman's American Bible / Herbert J. Levine

Texts, interpretations, and Whitman's "Song of myself" / Mark DeLancey

Reading "Song of myself" : assuming what Whitman assumes / Gayle L. Smith

Whitman's song of the possible American self / William Birmingham

Whitman and genre : the dialogic in "Song of myself" / Dana Phillips

Whitman's Leaves of grass and the writing of a new American Bible / W.C. Harris

Walt Whitman, the apostle / Michael D. Sowder

Walt Whitman and the epic tradition : political and poetical voices in "Song of myself" / Bill Hardwig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.

ISBN:

0791070476

OCLC:

50516427