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Collage of Myself : Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass by Matt Miller (2010, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN-100803225342
ISBN-139780803225343
eBay Product ID (ePID)102897692
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCollage of Myself : Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass
SubjectMixed Media, Poetry, American / General
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
AuthorMatt Miller
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight19.7 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-020826
Reviews"Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman's poetry as any to have appeared for some time."-M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, "Miller''s book is as valuable a publication on Whitman's poetry as any to have appeared for some time."-M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, "This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his Leaves of Grass ."-D. D. Kummings, Choice, ""This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his Leaves of Grass .""--D. D. Kummings, Choice ""Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman's poetry as any to have appeared for some time.""--M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 List of Abbreviations 000 1. How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks 000 2. Packing and Unpacking the First Leaves of Grass 000 3. Kosmos Poets and Spinal Ideas 000 4. Poems of Materials 000 5. Whitman after Collage / Collage after Whitman 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
SynopsisCollage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass ), Whitman--who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play--was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers." Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to "cut and paste" his lines into ever-evolving forms based on what he called "spinal ideas." This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later known as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready-made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art. Using the Walt Whitman Archive's collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of this great American literary icon., Presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. Collage of Myself details Walt Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as ""Song of Myself"" and ""The Sleepers"".
LC Classification NumberPS3241.M55 2010
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