• ISBN13: 9780814757796
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publisher Imprint: NYU Press
• Publication Date: April 18, 1994
• Pages: 549
• Original Price: 18.5 USD
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

About the Book "Nathanson addresses with renewed insight a problem that has vexed Whitman scholars at least since James E. Miller, Jr.'s A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass turned Whitman into a respectable academic subject; that is, the unusual status of Whitman's poetic voice. . . . The overall result is the finest articulation of Whitman's project in existence."<br>--Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College "What enables Nathanson to perform a feat no other critic has accomplished depends as much on his awareness of a range of thinkers from Wittgenstein to J.L. Austin and Derrida as on his sense of the qualities of poetry: he gives the term presence a cultural as well as poetic significance which opens out to cultural history, and makes Whitman as much a representative presence in the culture as our unequalled poet. I see this as a central book about our literature." <br>--Quentin Anderson, J.C. Levi Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Columbia University