"Democracy's "Lawless Music
The Whitmanian Moment in the U.S. Construction of Representative Literariness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7932141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Günter Leypoldt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 333-352 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2007.0032 |
| OpenAlex | W2037930565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay explores the connection between Walt Whitman and the rhetorical uses of "representative literariness," as part of a "post-Kantian" symbolic repertoire of intellectual self-legitimation. My focus lies on American literary studies, where representative literariness emerges as an important critical concept during the construction of an iconic Walt Whitman, beginning in the 1870s, and culminating in the 1940s, when both Whitman and his "age" were refigured in terms of aesthetic modernism and became central to the idea of an American Renaissance. While the American-Renaissance concept lost its critical appeal during the 1970s, its underlying notion of representative literariness has retained some of its cultural centrality
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Literariness · Literature · Political science · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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American Renaissance
The Shape of the Signifier
Metaphors We Live By
The field of Cultural Production
Borderlands/La Frontera
The Futures of American Studies
Three Essays on America
The Rites of Assent
The Uses of Variety
Walt Whitman and Opera
Of Me and of Mine”
Creating American Civilization
The Re-Discovery of America
Fiction and Justice
Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945
The Shape of the Signifier
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |