Democracy's "Lawless music": the Whitmanian moment in the U.S. construction of representative literariness

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 c...

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Main Author: Leypoldt, Günter (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2007
In: New literary history
Year: 2007, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 333-352
ISSN:1080-661X
Online Access:Archivierung, Volltext: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/220233
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