Name: The Erotic Whitman (en Inglés)
SKU: 19366746
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Author: Vivian R. Pollak

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Vivian R. Pollak

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

285

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0520221907

ISBN13

9780520221901

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Literatura: historia y crítica

The Erotic Whitman (en Inglés)

Vivian R. Pollak (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, Whitman was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well. The poet's expansive vision of natural eroticism and of unfettered comradeship between democratic equals was, however, only part of the story. As Whitman waged a conscious campaign to challenge misogynistic and homophobic literary codes, he promoted a raceless, classless ideal of sexual democracy that theoretically equalized all varieties of desire and resisted none. Pollak suggests that this goal remains imperfectly achieved in his writings, which liberates some forbidden voices and silences others. Integrating biography and criticism, Pollak employs a loosely chronological organization to describe the poet's multifaceted "faith in sex." Drawing on his early fiction, journalism, poetry, and self-reviews, as well as letters and notebook entries, she shows how in spite of his personal ambivalence about sustained erotic intimacy, Whitman came to imagine himself as "the phallic choice of America."