Whitman's Presence : Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass / Tenney Nathanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nathanson, Tenney, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.

Whitman, Walt.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Nathanson addresses with renewed insight a problem that has vexed Whitman scholars at least since James E. Miller, Jr.'s A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass turned Whitman into a respectable academic subject; that is, the unusual status of Whitman's poetic voice. . . . The overall result is the finest articulation of Whitman's project in existence."-Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College "What enables Nathanson to perform a feat no other critic has accomplished depends as much on his awareness of a range of thinkers from Wittgenstein to J.L. Austin and Derrida as on his sense of the qualities of poetry: he gives the term presence a cultural as well as poetic significance which opens out to cultural history, and makes Whitman as much a representative presence in the culture as our unequalled poet. I see this as a central book about our literature." -Quentin Anderson, J.C. Levi Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Columbia University

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Declarations

2. The World in the Word

3. Indications and Crossings: Light and Flood

4. The Embodied Voice

5. Writing and Representation

6. Inscriptions

7. Legacies

8. Vistas

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-512) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-5924-6

OCLC:

782878001