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Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
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Paperback. Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his ""new historicist"" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works. Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's ""poetry of the body"" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, traditional poetics, and conservative politics. The sexual relation, with its promise of unity, love, equality, interpenetration, and productivity for partners, becomes a metaphor for all political and social relationships, including ... Read more
This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his ""new historicist"" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works. Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's ""poetry of the body"" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, traditional poetics, and conservative politics. The sexual relation, with its promise of unity, love, equality, interpenetration, and productivity for partners, becomes a metaphor for all political and social relationships, including ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807843147
SKU
V9780807843147
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About M. Jimmie Killingsworth
M. Jimmie Killingsworth is associate professor of English at Memphis State University.
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