Whitman possessed

By Mark Maslan

Subjects: Possessiveness in literature, Critique et interprétation, Autorité (psychologie) dans la littérature, Homosexualite et litterature, Homosexuality and literature, Lyrik, Sexualität, Homosexuality in literature, Sexualite dans la litterature, Sex in literature, Homosexualite masculine dans la litterature, Whitman, walt, 1819-1892, Masculinité dans la littérature, Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Sex, Masculinité (psychologie), Homosexualité et littérature, Masculinity in literature, Pensée politique et sociale, Homosexualité, Et la sexualite, Criticism and interpretation, Sexualité, Histoire, Gay men in literature, Self in literature, Autorité dans la littérature, Dans la littérature, Pensee politique et sociale, Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature, Homosexuels masculins dans la litterature, Homosexuality, Male, in literature, Sexualité dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, Moi, Masculinite dans la litterature, Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature, Power (Social sciences) in literature, Possessivite dans la litterature, Authority in literature, Pouvoir (sciences sociales), Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la litterature, Homosexualité masculine, Et la sexualité, Poetics, Power (social sciences) in literature, Poetry, Male homosexuality, in literature, History, Male homosexuality in literature, Autorite dans la litterature, Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature, Possessivité dans la littérature, Poétique, Poetique, Popularität, Homosexualité masculine dans la littérature, Political and social views

Description: "Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his works in relation to nineteenth-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration, and political representation, Maslan argues that the disintegration of individuality in Whitman's texts is meant not to undermine cultural hierarchies but to make poetic and political authority newly viable."--BOOK JACKET.