TY - BOOK AU - Folsom,Ed TI - Walt Whitman: the centennial essays SN - 1587290677 AV - PS3238 .W369 1994eb U1 - 811/.3 20 PY - 1994/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - Whitman, Walt. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction : "Generations hence" / Ed Folsom -- Whitman biography in 1992 / Gay Wilson Allen -- The Binns biography / Jerome Loving -- Whitman : bibliography as biography / Joel Myerson -- Whitman unperturbed : the Civil War and after / Vivian R. Pollak -- The European roots of Leaves of grass / Roger Asselineau -- "Tallying, vocalizing all" : discourse markers in Leaves of grass / C. Carroll Hollis -- Whitman's physical eloquence / M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Reconstructing language in Democratic vistas / James Perrin Warren -- The obfuscations of rhetoric : Whitman and the visionary experience / Arthur Golden -- The body politic in Democratic vistas / Harold Aspiz -- The politics of labor and the poet's work : a reading of "A song for occupations" / Alan Trachtenberg -- Whitman and the dreams of labor / M. Wynn Thomas -- Whitman and the homosexual republic / Betsy Erkkila -- Whitman and the politics of identity / Robert K. Martin -- Whitman's multitudinous poetic progeny : particular and puzzling instances / James E. Miller, Jr. -- The Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance / George B. Hutchinson -- Whitman, Dos Passos, and "Our storybook democracy" / Kenneth M. Price -- "Teach me your rhythm" : the poetics of German lyrical responses to Whitman / Walter Gr�unzweig -- Whitman criticism in the light of Indian poetics / V.K. Chari; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - In 1992, the year of the hundredth anniversary of Walt Whitman's death, a major gathering of international scholars took place at the University of Iowa. Over 150 participants heard papers by 20 of the world's most eminent critics of Whitman. Three generations of scholars offered new essays that brilliantly tracked the course of past and present Whitman scholarship. So significant was this historic celebration of the great American poet that the opening session was covered by CBS & ldquo;Sunday Morning, & rdquo; National Public Radio's & ldquo;Morning Edition, & rdquo; the New York Times, and other UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21994 ER -