Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present invigorates Whitman studies by garnering insights from a diverse group of writers and intellectuals. Writing from the perspectives of art history, political theory, creative writing, and literary criticism, the contributors place Whitman in the center of both world literature and American public life. The volume is especially notable for being the best example yet published of what the editors call the New Textuality in Whitman studies, an emergent mode of criticism that ...
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Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present invigorates Whitman studies by garnering insights from a diverse group of writers and intellectuals. Writing from the perspectives of art history, political theory, creative writing, and literary criticism, the contributors place Whitman in the center of both world literature and American public life. The volume is especially notable for being the best example yet published of what the editors call the New Textuality in Whitman studies, an emergent mode of criticism that focuses on the different editions of Whitman's poems as independent works of art.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 188 pages. Index. An interdisciplinary literary critique of Whitman by ten different essayists. A title in the Iowa Whitman Series. First edition, first printing. A pristine, like new copy, appears unread. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.
