2020
Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry
SMITH, Jeffrey AlanZákladní údaje
Originální název
Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry
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Vydání
11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 2020
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Prezentace na konferencích
Obor
60206 Specific literatures
Stát vydavatele
Česká republika
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
Walt Whitman; Jack Engle; Leaves of Grass; history of news; nineteenth century journalism
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 22. 2. 2021 16:20, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
One of the lingering questions in Whitman scholarship is how exactly Walt Whitman made his surprising and fairly sudden leap from journalist of little note to groundbreaking poet. The recent rediscov ery of a lost Whitman novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle , dating from the years of that transition, offers a new clue: a chapter apparently based on Whitman’s real life habit of vacating his newspaper office to wander in cemeteries making notes of to mbstone inscriptions. This paper will suggest various ways in which this peculiar hobby represents a rehearsal for the kinds of poetic imagining that would soon find expression in Leaves of Grass . In bringing to life the randomly juxtaposed stories suggest ed by grave memorials, Whitman the churchyard rambler was practicing new ways of receiving and processing information, a new method of reading for a world of “perpetually flowing” news and, from this, a remodeling of poetry as a higher and more “vivified” style of reporting.
Návaznosti
MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU |
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