The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman
Title The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman PDF eBook
Author Kenneth M. Price
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 721
Release 2024
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192894846

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A Handbook on Walt Whitman that reflects the best new work in the field including chapters that set his work within the context of digital scholarship, discussion of new manuscript discoveries and transcriptions, exploration of environmental angles on Whitman, and a focus on disability studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman
Title The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 721
Release 2024-02-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192647784

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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the publication of a long-lost Whitman novel, Jack Engle, along with a hitherto unknown health guide for urban men and previously undiscovered poems. Myriad other documents have become more readily available, including largely unmined troves of journalism, narrative and documentary prose, and experimental note-keeping. Leaves of Grass and Whitman's literary life as a whole are thus ripe for reconsideration. The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman embraces this expanded view of Whitman and charts new pathways in Whitman Studies by bringing in new perspectives, methods, and contexts.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry
Title The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry PDF eBook
Author Jonathan F. S. Post
Publisher
Pages 775
Release 2013-07-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199607745

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry provides the widest coverage yet of Shakespeare's poetry and its afterlife in English and other languages.

The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges

The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges
Title The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges PDF eBook
Author Oxford Handbooks
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 673
Release 2024
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0197535275

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The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges contextualizes the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century readers and critics. Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Borges has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. This volume shifts the emphasis to Borges's working life, his writing processes, his collaborations and networks, and the political and cultural background of his production. It also evaluates his impact on a variety of other fields ranging from political science and philosophy to media studies and mathematics.

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
Title The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism PDF eBook
Author Joel Myerson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 790
Release 2010-04-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199716129

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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

The Oxford Handbook of Dante

The Oxford Handbook of Dante
Title The Oxford Handbook of Dante PDF eBook
Author Manuele Gragnolati
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 752
Release 2021-03-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192552597

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The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.

Containing Multitudes

Containing Multitudes
Title Containing Multitudes PDF eBook
Author Gary Schmidgall
Publisher
Pages 401
Release 2014
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199374414

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Walt Whitman burst onto the literary stage raring for a fight with his transatlantic forebears. With the unmetered and unrhymed long lines of Leaves of Grass, he blithely forsook "the old models" declaring that "poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away." In a self-authored but unsigned review of the inaugural 1855 edition, Whitman boasted that its influence-free author "makes no allusions to books or writers; their spirits do not seem to have touched him." There was more than a hint here of a party-crasher's bravado or a new-comer's anxiety about being perceived as derivative. But the giants of British literature were too well established in America to be toppled by Whitman's patronizing "that wonderful little island," he called England-or his frequent assertions that Old World literature was non grata on American soil. As Gary Schmidgall demonstrates, the American bard's manuscripts, letters, prose criticism, and private conversations all reveal that Whitman's negotiation with the literary "big fellows" across the Atlantic was much more nuanced and contradictory than might be supposed. His hostile posture also changed over the decades as the gymnastic rebel transformed into Good Gray Poet, though even late in life he could still crow that his masterwork Leaves of Grass "is an iconoclasm, it starts out to shatter the idols of porcelain." Containing Multitudes explores Whitman's often uneasy embrace of five members of the British literary pantheon: Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Blake, and Wordsworth (five others are treated more briefly: Scott, Carlyle, Tennyson, Wilde, and Swinburne). It also considers how the arcs of their creative careers are often similar to the arc of Whitman's own fifty years of poem-making. Finally, it seeks to illuminate the sometimes striking affinities between the views of these authors and Whitman on human nature and society. Though he was loath to admit it, these authors anticipated much that we now see as quintessentially Whitmanic.