Current Search: Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation (x)
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Cinematographic reading and catalogues in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass".
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Creator
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Jaramillo, Manuel J., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
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Abstract/Description
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Walt Whitman's visual imagination was influenced by paintings, panoramas, and photography. His expansive vision reflects changes in methods of perception. Whitman was also an influence on early filmmakers, like Dziga Vertov. Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory and Whitman's poetry reflect each other in their attempts to attain a "fresh" perception, to see the world "photogenically." Consequently, there is more than just similitude between Whitman and cinema. In fact, both are meant to be seen....
Show moreWalt Whitman's visual imagination was influenced by paintings, panoramas, and photography. His expansive vision reflects changes in methods of perception. Whitman was also an influence on early filmmakers, like Dziga Vertov. Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory and Whitman's poetry reflect each other in their attempts to attain a "fresh" perception, to see the world "photogenically." Consequently, there is more than just similitude between Whitman and cinema. In fact, both are meant to be seen. Although the idea of reading Whitman "cinematographically" has been mentioned by some critics, none has suggested how this reading process is to be enacted or understood by the reader. The Reader Response theory of Wolfgang Iser is used to show that the reader, when encountering a text, is involved in a process of ideation, during which mental images are influenced by and derived in part from textual schemata and indeterminacies. The cinematographic reading is, then, highly imaginative, resulting in the creation of a "virtual" text. When examined, it can be shown how Walt Whitman's catalogues intend to carry the reader along in a process of "indirect" ideation during which the structures and images of the catalogues become realized by the reader's imagination.
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Date Issued
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2004
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13182
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Subject Headings
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Motion pictures and literature, Reader-response criticism, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Leaves of Grass, Discourse analysis, Literary
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Document (PDF)
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WAR POETRY: WHITMAN, HARDY, AND JARRELL.
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KILPATRICK, DIANA D., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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The war poetry of Randall Jarrell reflects themes found in the war poetry of Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy. The period represented ranges from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II. Hardy wrote about five wars and experienced four in his lifetime; Whitman experienced the American Civil War; and Jarrell experienced World War II. Nature, often seen by the poets as "wounded" and sometimes complementary to war, is important to the poets, who incorporated her as healer, as absorber of the dead,...
Show moreThe war poetry of Randall Jarrell reflects themes found in the war poetry of Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy. The period represented ranges from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II. Hardy wrote about five wars and experienced four in his lifetime; Whitman experienced the American Civil War; and Jarrell experienced World War II. Nature, often seen by the poets as "wounded" and sometimes complementary to war, is important to the poets, who incorporated her as healer, as absorber of the dead, and as a symbolic background for war. The three poets wrote about people in war. Often the soldiers were helpless child victims who withstood the rigors of the military by establishing camaraderie or escaping through dreams and death. Advancing technology brought war, with its machinery and informational immediacy, close to civilians, affecting them and their soldiers as never before.
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Date Issued
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1986
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14308
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Subject Headings
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War poetry, Jarrell, Randall,--1914-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
