WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW最新文献

{"title":"Mark Edmundson. Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy.","authors":"Jerome M. Loving","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2418","url":null,"abstract":"According to Mark Edmundson, Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is an onanistic dream in which the poet, or speaker of this vision, is, among other things, angry at the sun. Although masturbation is his “characteristic sexual mode,” Whitman is distressed “by the fact that some, or even all, of the figures he’s fantasizing about . . . are male” (64-65). Later (110) Edmundson says he is “agnostic” on the question of Whitman’s alleged homosexuality. Whitman’s imagined “fight for democracy” in this volume—intended for “general readers”—centers upon his autoerotic encounter of Self and Soul and a “duel with the sun” (“There are millions of suns left”), which represents the patriarchal or aristocratic forces that continue to threaten the fragile democracy on the verge of civil war. The vernacular “you” in the poem is no longer primarily the reader, or “divine average,” but “another part of Walt himself” (17). The sun and the grass serve in this rather private, if not “New Critical,” reading of Leaves of Grass as the age-old opponents in the people’s war against kings and aristocracy. In this fight, Whitman was responding to what Emerson called for in his essays: “a vision of what being a democratic man or woman felt like at its best, day to day, moment to moment” (3). It seems that Thoreau might be the preferred Transcendentalist to get down in the dirt with Whitman and his omnibus drivers, not Emerson, who allegedly complained of the “fire-engine” society he encountered when Whitman took him to a restaurant in New York City at the end of 1855. Indeed, for all the Emerson that Edmundson calls upon in this monograph on Whitman, he seems oblivious to the Transcendentalist or logocentric context for “Song of Myself” and in fact all of Leaves of Grass. As we know and as Edmundson acknowledges, Whitman claimed that he was “simmering, simmering, simmering,” and that Emerson—along with opera and the King James version of the Bible—“brought [him] to a boil” (5). And just what was it that turned this mediocre poet/journalist/fiction writer (whose humble beginnings Edmundson exaggerates, ignoring the importance of Whitman’s having edited the Brooklyn Eagle from 1846 to 1848) into America’s greatest poet? It was the Emersonian idea that everybody and everything was REVIEWS WWQR Vol. 39 No. 1 (Summer 2021)","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43738789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Was Whitman “Betrayed” in Brazil?: Geir Campos, Ana Cristina Cesar, and the 1983 Chopping Up of Leaves of Grass","authors":"Patrícia Anzini","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42518415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The Face, the Body, the Voice”","authors":"A. C. César","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45565621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 39, no. 1","authors":"","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42753735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Betsy Erkkila. The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics.","authors":"M. Thomas.","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44617830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zachary Turpin and Matt Miller, eds. Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman’s Early Notebooks and Fragments.","authors":"B. Bair","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45699994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill. “The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings.","authors":"D. Mong","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48122870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appendix: A Sampling of New Orleans Crescent “Northern Correspondence” from “Manahatta”/“Manhattan”","authors":"W. Whitman","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66479940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carlos Bulosan, Walt Whitman, and the Transnational Jeremiad","authors":"Mai Wang","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2404","url":null,"abstract":"In 1935, the Filipino American writer and activist Carlos Bulosan (19131956) was living in Los Angeles when he vowed to continue his informal literary education. Disillusioned by the racism and class-based discrimination he encountered everywhere on the West Coast, Bulosan turned to literature in order to understand the historical forces that had shaped his experiences as a field hand and urban laborer among his fellow Filipino American immigrants. Once he devoted himself to his autodidactic mission, Bulosan spent his days at the Los Angeles Public Library. As he details in his essay “My Education,” which was published posthumously in a 1979 issue of Amerasia devoted to Bulosan, reading allowed him to contextualize his marginalized life by turning to what many might consider an unlikely canonical source: the poetry of Walt Whitman. Bulosan recalls:","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44698004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Strong, manly, and full of human nature”: The Roots of Rubén Darío’s “Walt Whitman”","authors":"Jonathan Fleck","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2403","url":null,"abstract":"The second edition of Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s Azul ... introduces an unexpected character: an elderly Walt Whitman, in a sonnet named in his honor. As I seek to demonstrate, Whitman’s surprise appearance in the foundational work of Latin American modernismo culminates a complex sequence of textual transfers occurring over several months in 1890: In late May, two reporters visit Whitman in Camden, New Jersey, and narrate their experience in an interview that was republished in several newspapers; in June, a Nicaraguan journalist incorporates an unacknowledged translation of the interview in an article for the Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York ; and Darío cites the Spanish-language article as part of the inspiration for his sonnet, published that October. What links these depictions is less an admiration for Whitman’s verse than a fascination with his body, imagined and re-imagined across languages, genres, and media. The texts dwell on the poet’s weakened physique, only to insist upon the virility of a face that comes to express intersecting anxieties of sexual nonconformity and socioeconomic reordering in continental America.","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41936743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}