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Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa Whitman Series)

By Gay Wilson Allen , Ed Folsom

Book information

Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0877454981, 9780877454984
LCC
PS3238 .W356 1995
Open Library ID
OL1269362M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10114405 bytes)
Series
Iowa Whitman Series
Edition
1
Pages
480\478
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.

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