New PDF release: Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies

By Betsy Erkkila,Jay Grossman

ISBN-10: 0195093496

ISBN-13: 9780195093490

ISBN-10: 019509350X

ISBN-13: 9780195093506

Breaking Bounds invigorates the research of Whitman and American tradition via offering essays that show Whitman's centrality to the widest variety of social, political, literary, sexual, and cultural discourses of his time and ours. Bringing jointly a extraordinary crew of cultural critics operating within the fields of literature, American reports, Latin American reviews, ecu reviews, paintings historical past, and gay/lesbian/queer reports, the amount again and again opens new vistas within the methods we see Whitman and gives a version for the latest and brightest highbrow efforts linked to "cultural studies." imperative to the quantity is a collection of provocative essays in queer reports that holiday the limits of decorum that experience too lengthy separated Whitman's sexuality from his politics, and his poetry from either. The Whitman that emerges from those amassed essays is renewed for a brand new new release of literary students operating to outline the locations and the features of his poetic phrases on the planet. Taken as an entire, the amount issues to the interdisciplinary way forward for American literary and cultural stories. Breaking Bounds is vital analyzing for a person attracted to Whitman either in and out the academy.

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