UID:
edocfu_9961398926302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 386 pages) :
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illustrations ;
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digital file (PDF)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1805111035
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9781805111030
Content:
'Divine Style' focuses on Whitman’s output in the years preceding the release of his 1855 opus 'Leaves of Grass' through the general period of the book’s first three editions. In this, Dobbs-Allsopp’s exploration of the period is exhaustive – covering not just Leaves of Grass but recently recovered notebooks, newly digitised manuscripts and additions to the corpus, such as the novel 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'.This is a work of careful, detailed scholarship, offering an authoritative commentary that will be a valuable resource for students of Whitman, biblical scholars and scholars of literature more generally.
Note:
Intro -- _Hlk137546483 -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prefatory Note on Links -- Introduction -- 1. Whitman on the Bible -- Whitman on the Bible: A Retrospective -- "The Bible as Poetry" -- The Bible and the Birth of (Whitman's) Free Verse -- 2. The Bible in Whitman: Quotation, Allusion, Echo -- Some Preliminary Observations -- "No Quotations": The 1850 Poems -- The Bible in Whitman's Prose from 1850-53 -- Biblical Echoes in the Early Notebooks and Unpublished Poetry Manuscripts -- 3. Whitman's Line: "Found" in the King James Bible? -- The Development of Whitman's Long Line: A Chronology -- G. W. Allen, Parallelism, and the Biblical Poetic Line -- The Verse Divisions of the KJB and Whitman's Line -- The KJB Mediated Otherwise -- Conclusions -- 4. Parallelism: In the (Hebrew) Bible and in Whitman -- The Politics of Parallelism -- Lowth's Idea of Parallelism and Its Modern Reception -- Whitman and Biblical Parallelism: Line-Internal Parallelism -- A Note on Chronology -- Whitman's Parallelism -- 5. "The Divine Style": An American Prose Style Poeticized -- "Plate-glassy style" -- (Some) Biblical Elements of Whitman's Plain Style -- Formatting of Attributed Speech -- Prose into Poetry -- "Walt Whitman, an American" -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- I. Works Published by Walt Whitman -- II. Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, Special Editions, and Translations -- III. Other Literature -- List of Figures -- Index.
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Text is in English
Language:
English
