A long overdue comparative study of the American voices in hemispheric poetry, this book brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, 'Leaves of Grass' and 'Canto General'. The fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break ...
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A long overdue comparative study of the American voices in hemispheric poetry, this book brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, 'Leaves of Grass' and 'Canto General'. The fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break through the partitions that separate the native, English and Spanish poetic responses to the American hemisphere.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 270 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 93002379 Type of material Book Personal name Nolan, James, 1947-Main title Poet-chief: the Native American poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda / James Nolan. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1994. Description 270 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0826314848 (cl) LC classification PS3242. A34 N64 1994 LC Subjects Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Aesthetics. Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973--Aesthetics. Comparative literature--American and Chilean. Comparative literature--Chilean and American. Literature and anthropology--America. Oral tradition--America. Indians in literature. Indian aesthetics. Poetics. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index. Dewey class no. 861 Geographic area code n-us---s-cl---
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