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Walt Whitman and the Epic Impulse
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Walt Whitman, the exponent of American democracy
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Walt Whitman as a Precursor of Frederick Jackson Turner
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Performing Union: Walt Whitman, Participatory Democracy, and Antebellum Performance Culture
… dissertation examines the antebellum editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (those published in 1855, 1856, and 1860) within the context of his indebtedness to antebellum performance culture, particularly as represented in the streets, in the theatres, and in the public halls that housed …
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Walt Whitman, Kosmos : A Study of the Persona of "Song of Myself"
… among the critics regarding the "I" of Whitman's poem. Four major strands of critical thought regarding the persona are evident in the literary criticism, and I have categorized these critical perspectives as follows: (1) the persona as hero, (2) the persona as dualistic self, (3) the …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
… of Emerson's reading of Blake. According to Walter Harding, Emerson owned a copy of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. This was given to him by Elizabeth Peabody in 1842, is inscribed 'R.W. Emerson from his friend E.P.P.', and has notes throughout in Emerson's hand. Indeed, a diary …
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In reality meager: eluding death anxiety in Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics of the body
… Spaniard’s Poet in New York using the adjective “Whitman-esque.” Indeed, the poet’s posthumous collection lambasts the rampant materialism and putrid urbanization of New York through extensive divergent shifts in style and tone from Lorca’s earlier work that point toward the influence of Walt …
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An Approach to the Critical Evaluation of Settings of the Poetry of Walt Whitman: Lowell Liebermann's Symphony No. 2
Walt Whitman's poetry continues to inspire composers of choral music, and the growing collection of musical settings necessitates development of a standard evaluative tool. Critical evaluation of the musical settings of Whitman's work is difficult because the extensive body of verse is complex and …
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Philosophies, Themes and Symbols in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Han Yong-Un (Religion, Patriotism, Democracy, Freedom, Independence)
… may be traced in the poetry of the American Walt Whitman (1819-92) and the Korean Han Yong-Un (1879-1944). Even though no evidence of direct influence of Whitman on Han may be ascertained, there are numerous parallelisms in ideas, attitudes and visions in Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Han's …
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… Dickinson has been placed in the former camp and Walt Whitman the latter. This thesis contests their opposition and asserts that both are poetic revolutionaries who initiated a poetic lineage characterised by its democratic orientation, hybridity, formal experimentation, and its challenge to the …
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Campaign songs as a factor in American politics
… type of popular song was naturally patriotic. Walt Whitman in his article “Slang in America” observes that folk songs, like language, are not an abstract construction of the learned, bu something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman—is offered. By thinking communication as testimony, as a making sense in common, the relationship between communication and a radical democracy to come is brought into relief.
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Movement and Shape in the Choral Music of Roger Sessions
… Dooryard Bloom'd, a cantata based on the poem by Walt Whitman. After providing information on the composer's life, literary and teaching contributions, and general compositional style, the essay presented Session's aesthetic views and his belief in an organic compositional method. Because Sessions …
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"The Return of the Dead": Reactions Against Photography in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman, reacted negatively to the new paradigm of memory created by photography and expressed disdain for it in their texts. Their texts repudiate memory qua memory and offer alternative strategies for thinking about the past, present, and …
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Saudade
… of various authors including Bruce Weigl, Walt Whitman, Anne Carson, Rita Dove, Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, among others. These authors not only formulate poetry with universal themes, realistic narratives, teeth-grinding imagery, or song-filled musicality, but they exhibit various …
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