"14 lectures, 7 compact discs"--Container. At head of container title: Recorded Books presents. Compact discs. Lectures delivered by Professor Karen Karbiener, Columbia University. Course guide includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Lecture 1. "Listener up there!": Whitman springs of the page -- Lecture 2. The revolution of the first edition: Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Lecture 3. Emerson, Whitman, and the beginnings of an original American literature -- Lecture 4. Manhattan's son rises -- Lecture 5. Sex is the root of it all -- Lecture 6. Whitman's Civil War -- Lecture 7. Banned in Boston: Whitman and censorship -- Lecture 8. Glancing back, looking forward: Whitman and the promise of America -- Lecture 9. Whitman among the moderns -- Lecture 10. I, too, sing America: Black voices respond to Whitman -- Lecture 11. From "Barbaric yawp" to "Howl" -- Lecture 12. Whitman, visual poetics, and the New York School -- Lecture 13. Singing the songs: Whitman's impact on modern American music -- Lecture 14. I stop somewhere waiting for you: Whitman's enduring presence.
Summary:
Explores how Walt Whitman broke with European literary forms to establish a broad new voice for American poetry. His influence on his contemporaries and decendents transends the boundaries of poetry and becomes the story of young America. Discusses the influence of this 19th century American poet not only to poetry but to cultural formation of the the United States.
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