Title Collage of myself : Walt Whitman and the making of Leaves of grass / Matt Miller

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : illustrations Contents How Whitman used his early notebooks -- Packing and unpacking the first Leaves of grass -- Kosmos poets and spinal ideas -- Poems of materials -- Whitman after collage/collage after Whitman Summary Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman---who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play---was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers." Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to "cut and paste" his lines into ever evolving forms based on what he called "spinal ideas." This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later know as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art. Using the Walt Whitman Archive's collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of the great American literary icon Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Technique Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Manuscripts SUBJECT Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Manuscripts Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Technique Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt) fast Subject Collage. collage (technique) LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Collage Technique Genre/Form Manuscripts Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2010020826 ISBN 9780803234420 0803234422 1283063972 9781283063975 9786613063977 6613063975

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