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Fillard-Thévenet, Claudette. "Walt Whitman poète des éléments." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37605070r.
Full textFillard, Claudette. "Walt Whitman, poète des éléments." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040072.
Full textWhile many critics have stressed the importance of the four elements in Whitman's works, a thorough study of their influence on his imagination, sensitivity and theory of poetry has long been overdue. Whitman's use of "elements" and some cognate words shows how easily "elements" become "aliments" and "aliments", and unsettles the traditional vision of the poet's unruffled optimism. Trying to assess the specific role of each of the four elements in his writings, one realizes that if water is equal to its reputation, air, earth and fire are worth rehabilitating. Fire, above all, seems to have a peculiar, disturbing status which has been unduly minimized. But the exploration becomes much more rewarding when one gets rid of the straitjacket of the elementary "quaternion" and resorts to a more variegated approach. A careful perusal of the part played by the elements in Whitman's celebration of the "body electric", in his conception of space and time and variable
Kolbe, Ben. "Walt Whitman's split poetic personalities." Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University, 2009. http://dcoll.brandeis.edu/handle/10192/23301.
Full textMackay, Daniel. "Advertising the soul : Walt Whitman's luciferic voice in twentieth-century American poetry /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594829931&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textChoay-Lescar, Pauline. "Formes de l'absence chez Walt Whitman." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030099.
Full textMoores, Don. "The essentially mystical Walt Whitman : an elucidation of the mystical dimension in Leaves of grass /." Click for abstract, 1997. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1500.html.
Full textThesis advisor: John A. Heitner. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-92).
Hecker-Bretschneider, Elisabeth. "Bedingte Ordnungen : Repräsentationen von Chaos und Ordnung bei Walt Whitman, 1840-1860 /." Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994722680/04.
Full textAustin, Kelly. "A poet of the Americas Neruda's translations of Whitman and North American translations of Neruda /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1003847081&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textGreen, Charles B. "Passing into print: Walt Whitman and his publishers." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623452.
Full textSowder, Michael. "Whitman's ecstatic union : conversion and ideology in "Leaves of grass /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40057342z.
Full textYu, Shiu-kong Bartholomew. "Fused though antagonistic elements : a study of Walt Whitman's paradoxical vision of life /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1236826X.
Full textRumeau, Delphine. "Épopée et modernité : Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Édouard Glissant." Paris 10, 2008. https://acces.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/login?url=https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4073-1.
Full textHowever contradictory the terms “modernity” and “epic” might sound, the reference to the genre remains crucial for modern poets, especially those from the New World with political intentions and collective identity claims. The inscription of epic features within a modern perspective is a source of creative tensions. The choice of the works was grounded on the strong intertextuality that binds them, a key notion in generic issues. First, space supersedes history as the central focus of writing, which aims at encompassing the continent’s landscapes and giving them an unprecedented literary shape. This also raises the question of the referential function of language, often challenged by modern poetry: the epic claim is somehow an act of faith in the possibility of naming the world and in the aptness of words to do so. As history gives way to geography, the future tends to become the dominant tense in Whitman: the narrative continuum thus yields to a more fragmented vision. Heroic representation is also challenged by democratic values: how can heroism be diffracted into a plural agent? Similarly, Neruda and Glissant’s chief concern is to incarnate a collective heroism whose triumph lies ahead in the future. Contrary to Whitman, though, the reconstruction of the past is a fundamental preliminary to the emergence of a collective identity
Szendrey, Stephen P. "Queering the Literary Landscape: Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275685833.
Full textWoodbury, Rachelle Helene. "Animism in Whitman : "Multitudes" of interpretation? /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1390.pdf.
Full textJanssen, David. "Walt Whitman's Poetics of Labor." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4593.
Full textHarris, Kirsten. "The love of comrades : Walt Whitman and the British socialists." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14573/.
Full textHubert, Denise Dawn. "Walt Whitman, poet of the body : stylistics of (dis)embodiment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32832.
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Lundy, Lisa Kirkpatrick. "Reverberating Reflections of Whitman: A Dark Romantic Revealed." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279061/.
Full textNautiyal, Nandita. ""This self is Brahman" : Whitman in the light of the Upanishads." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26747.
Full textKeller, Kristen T. ""Any man translates, and any man translates himself also," Whitman, Martí, and the moving text." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/k_keller_042310.pdf.
Full textMoores, Donald J. "Mystical discourse as ideological resistance in Wordsworth and Whitman : a transatlantic bridge /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2003. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/3103714.
Full textHecker-Bretschneider, Elisabeth. "Bedingte Ordnungen Repräsentationen von Chaos und Ordnung bei Walt Whitman, 1840 - 1860." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/994722680/04.
Full textArmstrong, David Grossman. "The true believer : Walt Whitman Rostow and the path to Vietnam /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textGambarotto, Bruno. "Walt Whitman e a formação da poesia norte-americana (1855-1867)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-21052007-145634/.
Full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to analyze some of the decisive moments in the making of North American poetry, determined by the development, from 1855 to 1867, of the four initial editions of Walt Whitman\'s Leaves of Grass. The choice of these remarkable moments serves to underline the engaged feature of Whitman´s poetical accomplishment, which implied not the mere transposition of European literary thought into the New World, but mainly the formal constitution of a national poetry fit for the social environment of the United States. In this sense, the analysis of these four Leaves of Grass´ editions (1855, 1856, 1861, 1867) presupposes two complementary ways: firstly the acknowledgment of Whitman´s poetry as a response to the social tensions in North American midnineteenth century, when modernity, led by free labor and industrialization, collides with colonial and pre-modern social structures, based upon slavery and the very descentralized commercial Republic constitution; secondly the literary configuration of these tensions, in which we observe elements of the literary Romanticism dialetically linked to local forms of expression, some of them alien to the literary achievements of the Old World, but reinforced by the founding project of a national literature. To attend these questions, this dissertation recovers the long tradition of Walt Whitman studies - dedicated in the present time to the historical revisioning of the poet´s works centered almost exclusively in the North American social experience - by the light of the Brazilian critical tradition, in which very important concepts and debates over the periferical position of New World literatures were consolidated. This theoretical perpective allows us not only to place Leaves of Grass in a wider perspective of New World literatures but also to build a indirect comparative view that rests upon some important questions to the North American and Brazilian literary traditions, as the engaged ethos of their literary elites; the search for new literary forms; the lyrical affirmative representation of national individuals; the economical and ethical responses to slavery; and the ambiguous and contradictory relation with European literary movements.
Franklin, Kelly Scott. "Out of place: Walt Whitman and the Latin American avant-gardes." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5755.
Full textHennequet, Claire. "L'identité poétique de la nation. Walt Whitman, José Marti, Aimé Césaire." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030085/document.
Full textIn 19th and 20th centuries America and West Indies, the national poet’s works lay at the centre of a traffic of images. This traffic feeds the fragile social ties of young collectivities, at a time when communities are bound by imagination rather than by direct contact between their members. Distancing themselves from the representations of the community circulating at that time, like the exotic images of the New World’s nature, the poet offers an ambitious democratic vision for the future which is channeled through images of the territory, the people, slavery and history. The poet’s ethos encourages the reader to appropriate this discourse by presenting the author as a role model. However, it is mainly thanks to his style, at odds with the literary norms of his time, that the poet is able to act upon society. Whitman, Martí and Césaire do not so much contrive to capture their people’s spirit, as they participate through their work on the fragment, on popular poetical forms or on the destabilizing of meaning, in the creation of a common devenir
Preston, Nathaniel H. "Passage to India and back again : Walt Whitman's democratic expression of vedantic mysticism." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902498.
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Delchamps, Vivian. "“Of the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women's Literary History." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/420.
Full textDavidson, Ryan J. "Affinities of influence : exploring the relationship between Walt Whitman and William Blake." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5590/.
Full textKatsaros, Laure. "Le rivage dans la poesie americaine : walt whitman, hart crane, george oppen." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070070.
Full textRobbins, Timothy David. "Walt Whitman and the making of the American sociological imagination, 1870-1940." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6490.
Full textConrad, Eric Christopher. "The Walt Whitman brand: Leaves of grass and literary promotion, 1855-1892." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1838.
Full textSanchez, Rachel Marie. "The "real language of men" and the "dialect of common sense" in the prefaces of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/r_sanchez_042309.pdf.
Full textKenaston, Karen S. "An Approach to the Critical Evaluation of Settings of the Poetry of Walt Whitman: Lowell Liebermann's Symphony No. 2." Thesis, Online resource, 2003. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20031/kenaston%5Fkaren/index.htm.
Full textOriginal copy accompanied by 3 recitals, recorded Apr. 27, 2000, Nov. 28, 2000, and Oct. 31, 2001; videocassette not dated. Lacking in UMI copy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-149).
Leonard, Gay Lynne. "Poetic ingress a study of opening lines in Whitman, Dickinson, and Lanier /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1987. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8711962.
Full textSaraiva, Junior Gentil. "Re-creating Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into portuguese." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15552.
Full textThis work focuses on the creative translation of Walt Whitman’s poetry into Portuguese. The term that we use to refer to this process is re-creation, which is a type of translation that goes beyond literal translation (which favors the signified), searching for a work of conjoined reconstruction of signified and signifiers, due to the profound relation that exists between them (chapter 3 explains this method of creative translation; it also discusses the themes that are related to this in poetry, such as free verse, rhythm, meter, etc.). The term re-creation was borrowed from our masters in this type of translation, the Brazilian Concretist poets: Haroldo de Campos, Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari. In English, we use this word hyphenated, “re-creation” (and its derivatives), due to the fact that “recreation” indicates only diversion, an activity that is performed for relaxation and pleasure, and not “creating again”. It is necessary to remember that the precursor in this translatorial field, of translation which is also creation, was Ezra Pound, who brought us the idea of constant renewing of poetry via translation, and who is given more attention in sections 3.2 and 3.3. There are other translations of Whitman’s works in Portuguese, including a complete edition of Leaves of Grass by Martin Claret publishing house (2005), of which we provide an account in section 2.2, however, none of them was carried out in a similar way to our own. Thus, the work we present here is original, although it is not complete. In the body of this dissertation, in chapter 4, we present the re-creation of twenty literary pieces, among poems and books, from Leaves of Grass, which is the volume that assembles the complete poetry of Whitman. Within the re-creations presented here, there is the poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, which is part of Sea-Drift, and which had been added as an annex to our Master’s thesis. This poem has been revised and corrected, and has been included here in order for the Sea-Drift cluster to be complete. In section 2.1 there is an explanation about the publishing history of Leaves of Grass. In addition to the historical context of this publication, chapter 2 presents a critical analysis of the works, author, and a central symbol in the Leaves, which is the calamus root. The re-creation of “Calamus”, as well as of “Children of Adam” and “Song of Myself” appears in our Master’s thesis (SARAIVA, 1995).
El-Desouky, Ayman Ahmed. "The self-begetting modern : figuring the human in Whitman and Joyce /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004257.
Full textBrown, Bryce Dean. "Whitman's Failures: "Children of Adam" in the Light of Feminist Ideals." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc503937/.
Full textBorges, Frankslayne Paranista de Oliveira. "A tessitura epilírica de leaves of grass." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2012. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3099.
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In this dissertation we will discuss Walt Whitman’s poetry in the aspects that articulate the lyric and the epic in an epilyric unity, taking the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass as its study object. We shall ascertain the theoretical assumptions of modernity and modern poetry characteristics, which are crucial to the understanding of the poet’s aesthetic and ideological project, as delivered in his preface for the 1855 edition, as well as his importance to modernism in poetry in the following century. Subsequently, we shall examine carefully the subjectivity expressed in the book at issue, which is polymorphically shaped, as it’s showed by the categories proposed by Kinnaird (1962) and Bloom (2001). Finally, we shall find how Whitman used aspects of the epical literature to construct his oeuvre and carry out his design to become the national poet of the United States.
Nesta dissertação trataremos da poesia de Walt Whitman sob os aspectos que articulam o lírico e o épico numa unidade epilírica, tendo como objeto a obra Leaves of Grass em sua edição de 1892. Averiguaremos, ainda, os pressupostos teóricos da modernidade e as caracterizações da poesia moderna, fundamentais para a compreensão do projeto ideológico e estético do poeta, demonstrado em seu prefácio de 1855, bem como da sua importância para o próprio modernismo na poesia no século seguinte. Em seguida, nos aprofundaremos no estudo da subjetividade expressa na obra em questão, que se configura polimorficamente, como demonstram as categorias propostas por Kinnaird (1962) e Bloom (2001). Por fim, verificaremos como Whitman lançou mão de aspectos da literatura épica para construir sua obra e executar seu projeto de ser o poeta nacional estadunidense.
Whitley, Edward K. "American bards James M. Whitfield, Eliza R. Snow, John Rollin Ridge, and Walt Whitman /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1739.
Full textThesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Costa, Elisa Maria Carrancho Sá. "A América, a universalidade e a espiritualidade na poesia da Reconstrução de Walt Whitman." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2001. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000119101.
Full textBellot, Marc. "Walt whitman a l'epreuve de la pensee emersonienne. La legitimation de l'eros par l'ethos." Amiens, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AMIE0003.
Full textBlalock, Stephanie Michelle. "Walt Whitman at Pfaff's Beer Cellar: America's Bohemian poet and the contexts of Calamus." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2047.
Full textLindeen, Karilyn. "Walt Whitman and the American Civil War: from Wound Dresser to Good Gray Poet." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32590.
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Charles W. Sanders, Jr.
Today, Walt Whitman is considered a famous nineteenth-century American poet. At the outbreak of the American Civil War however, he was underrated and underappreciated by American readers. Three editions of his book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, were not received well by American readers and his future in writing looked bleak. This was despite the fact that Whitman’s literary friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote an encouraging review of the first edition, which Whitman included in the second and third iterations. Ironically, Whitman’s career made a turn for the better when his brother, George Washington Whitman, was reported to be among the wounded or killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. A dedicated family man, Whitman immediately boarded a train in New York and headed for Falmouth, Virginia, to check on his brother’s wellbeing. Whitman visited several makeshift hospitals before coming across Chatham Mansion, the temporary Union Hospital Headquarters. He saw at the base of a tree a pile of human limbs that had been tossed out of a first floor window following amputations. The scene was horrific and he paused to record what he saw in his diary. This experience forever changed Whitman the man and Whitman the poet and the transformation was evident in his subsequent writing, as Whitman first took on the persona of what I have designated as the Wound Dresser and years after the war the Good Gray Poet. This evolution changed the public perception of Whitman, and it occurred in phases. The initial phase was before the war, his work was considered obscene among American society due to his previous publications. The second transformation in Whitman was initiated by fear of personal loss when his brother was listed among the wounded and dead at Fredericksburg and the sight of the amputated limbs at Chatham Mansion. Had Whitman been exposed to the war slowly over time, the effect might not have been so profound, but Chatham was an earth shattering event in his life, as he admitted. The third phase was the result of daily exposure for years to the wounded and dying in the hospitals. He developed a personal connection with the men and was determined to stay with them, despite direct orders from hospital doctors that he should return home for his own physical and emotional recovery. His experience in the hospitals had transformed from a middle aged healthy man to a frail and brittle shell, evident in photographs of him during these years. The final phase was marked by the transformation in his writing. It was in this phase that Whitman created the most memorable and remarkable Civil War poetry that is still celebrated today. It was this poetry that caused American’s to revere him as the “Good Gray Poet.”
Costa, Elisa Maria Carrancho Sá. "A América, a universalidade e a espiritualidade na poesia da Reconstrução de Walt Whitman." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/13052.
Full textElliott, Clare Frances. "William Blake's American legacy : transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/753/.
Full textNigm, Soad Mohammad Ali Mostafa. "The idea of America in the works of Robert Southey, Joel Barlow and Walt Whitman." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555963.
Full textRibeiro, Flavio Diniz. "Walt Whitman Rostow e a problemática do desenvolvimento: ideologia, política e ciência na Guerra Fria." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-04072008-160534/.
Full textThis Thesis\' main objective is the production of a critical reading of the Walt Whitman Rostow\'s construction of the development as an ideology and as a State policy of the United States in the Cold War context. The development is conceived as an international economic policy mainly to solve the serious problem of the need for international expansion of capitalism as a world system, in the post-war period, under the American hegemony. The political-ideological confrontation capitalism versus communism is certainly a relevant one, but secondary. A strong ideology of development becomes necessary to induce the so called underdeveloped countries to adopt the development as their primary goal, which the international development policy could make easier by the supply of international loanable funds and technical assistance. One accepted, this scheme would guarantee the functioning of a new international capitalistic order, replacing the old colonialism. Walt Whitman Rostow is perhaps the most important intellectual in the creation and promotion of the development as an ideology and a State policy. This Thesis is centered upon his theoretical-political production about the development, covering the effective creative period of this production, that is, until Rostow\'s definition of his stages-of-growth sequence in The Stages of Economic Growth. A Non-Communist Manifesto. There is also an analysis of Rostow\'s search for theoretical foundations by means of his criticism of Marx and of the structural-functional approach in the social sciences. .
Waggoner, Eliza K. "America Singing Loud: Shifting Representations of American National Identity in Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1336052921.
Full textMarsden, Steven Jay. ""Hot little prophets": reading, mysticism, and Walt Whitman's disciples." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1213.
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