The politics of distinction: Whitman and the discourses of nineteenth century America
Positing a phenomenon he calls Whitman's "logic of distinction," Beach shows how the poet differentiated his work from previous literary models while, at the same time, he sought to portray daily life and the concerns of the common people in an idiomatic, rather than a high-minded lit...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Positing a phenomenon he calls Whitman's "logic of distinction," Beach shows how the poet differentiated his work from previous literary models while, at the same time, he sought to portray daily life and the concerns of the common people in an idiomatic, rather than a high-minded literary manner. Beach focuses on two basic levels of discourse that alternate in Whitman's poems: the sociolect, or his society's communal discourse on a subject, and the idiolect, or Whitman's own distinctive and highly adaptive appropriation and expression of these sociolects. In successive chapters, Beach draws on the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu and Thorstein Veblen to place Leaves of Grass within the context of its mid-nineteenth-century literary and cultural environment, examines the intertextual and social contexts of Whitman's relationship to race and slavery as worked out both in his poems and particular prose writings, reads Whitman's New York as a site of Bakhtinian heteroglossia, and views Whitman's unique and complex interaction with discourses of the body in the context of relevant work by Barthes and Bourdieu. Throughout, Beach acknowledges the poems' inherent, ultimately inexplicable beauty and timelessness by recognizing both the limitations of a cultural and historical explanation of Whitman's poetry and by showing the poems' own unique idiolectic relationship to normative rules of grammar, meaning, and verbal combination. |
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The Politics of Distinction
WHITMAN AND
THE DISCOURSES OF
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
AMERICA
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
Athens amp;• London
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction: The Logic of Distinction 1
1 Intertextuality and the Poetics of Distinction 18
2 The Invisible Discourse:
Slavery and Subjectivity in Leaves of Grass 55
3 The Aesthetics of Indifference:
Whitman and the American City 102
4 Figuring the Body in Leaves:
Whitman and the Discourse of Corporeality 152
Notes 185
Works Cited 205
Index 213
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