Whitman's Presence : : Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass / / Tenney Nathanson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Nathanson, Tenney,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"Nathanson addresses with renewed insight a problem that has vexed Whitman scholars at least since James E. Miller, Jr.'s A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass turned Whitman into a respectable academic subject; that is, the unusual status of Whitman's poetic voice. . . . The overall result is the finest articulation of Whitman's project in existence."-Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College "What enables Nathanson to perform a feat no other critic has accomplished depends as much on his awareness of a range of thinkers from Wittgenstein to J.L. Austin and Derrida as on his sense of the qualities of poetry: he gives the term presence a cultural as well as poetic significance which opens out to cultural history, and makes Whitman as much a representative presence in the culture as our unequalled poet. I see this as a central book about our literature." -Quentin Anderson, J.C. Levi Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Columbia University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Declarations -- 2. The World in the Word -- 3. Indications and Crossings: Light and Flood -- 4. The Embodied Voice -- 5. Writing and Representation -- 6. Inscriptions -- 7. Legacies -- 8. Vistas -- Works Cited -- Index