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100 1 $aMack, Stephen John,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002029899
245 14 $aThe pragmatic Whitman :$breimagining American democracy /$cStephen John Mack.
260 $aIowa City :$bUniversity of Iowa Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axxii, 182 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Iowa Whitman series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-178) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision -- $gPt. I.$tThe Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856 -- $gCh. 1.$t"My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology -- $gCh. 2.$t"What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self -- $gCh. 3.$t"The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos -- $gCh. 4.$t"Not Chaos or Death ... It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency -- $gPt. II.$tCrises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867 -- $gCh. 5.$t"The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency -- $gCh. 6.$t"To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning -- $gPt. III.$tProphet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871 -- $gCh. 7.$t"The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood.
505 80 $tConclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy.
520 1 $a"For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition.".
520 8 $a"Mack describes the foundation of Whitman's democracy as found in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass, examines the ways in which Whitman's 1859 sexual crisis and the Civil War transformed his democratic poetics in "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, and explores Whitman's mature vision in Democratic Vistas, concluding with observations on its moral and political implications today.
520 8 $aThroughout, he illuminates Whitman's great achievement - learning that a full appreciation for the complexities of human life meant understanding that liberty can take many different and conflicting forms - and allows us to contemplate the relevance of that achievement at the beginning of the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aWhitman, Walt,$d1819-1892$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aWhitman, Walt,$d1819-1892$xKnowledge$xUnited States.
650 0 $aPolitical poetry, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107224
650 0 $aPatriotic poetry, American$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100036
650 0 $aDemocracy in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003797
830 0 $aIowa Whitman series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001027536
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