沃尔特·惠特曼

出版时间：2008-5-1  出版社：上海外语教育出版社  作者：基灵兹华斯  页数：139  
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前言

我们有幸将“剑桥文学名家研习系列”（美国卷）丛书推荐给我国有关专业的本科生、研究生和外国文学爱好者。这一套著名大学出版社的英文原版文学丛书，以普及、介绍和导读为宗旨，集权威性和可读性于一体，原汁原昧但又浅近易懂，特色鲜明，十分难得。丛书是开放式的，我们首先推出第一系列共七册，包括诗人惠特曼、狄金森、庞德，作家霍桑、麦尔维尔、马克·吐温和菲茨杰拉德。这些美国作家和诗人都是我国知识界和文化青年熟知的名字——至少是应该知道的名字。他们都是美国主流文学的台柱，他们的作品影响巨大，能够反映或折射当时的历史和社会状况，并仍然能给今天的我们带来启示。他们是世界文化遗产的一部分，属于美国，也属于全世界。文学不是历史。它不仅仅局限于“记录”事件，进行冷冰冰的梳理归纳，而着力“再现”民族发展过程中或个人生活认识中典型的、生动的实例，这些个案可供放大观察，分析阐释，从中解读出人文环境的很多信息，提供人生经验。文学无疆界，这是因为不同的民族、历史、个体的发展或成长经历中有许多共性的东西，超越时空和文化，可以在中国读者心灵上唤起共鸣。人类生活的许多体验往往处于一种模糊散乱的“悬浮”状态，是我们的语言所不足以表达的。文学作品，尤其是经过时间考验的文学经典，可以为我们提供经验的拐杖，通过了解他人的体验，更加深刻地认识我们自己，认识生活。我们希望本系列丛书能带您走近文学大师，了解他们的生平创作与思想情感，进而更多地去阅读他们的作品，从中获得借鉴和启迪。

内容概要

本系列旨在为学生引荐英美文学名家，内容亲和，语言生动，对有意提高西方文学素养的读者很有吸引力。 沃尔特·惠特曼是19世纪最具创新精神和最具影响力的美国诗人之一。此书以他的传世之作《草叶集》为中心，为研究惠特曼提供了基础。除了对惠特曼的主要作品作深入研究，书中还涉及惠特曼的生平、其所处时代的历史和文化以及评论家对其作品的批评。这些使我们对惠特曼本人及其如何成为美国文学界核心人物有了全面的了解。

作者简介

作者：(美国)基灵兹华斯(Killingsworth,M.J.)

书籍目录

PrefaceChapter 1 Life　Youth and literary apprenticeship (1819-1850)　The emergence of the poet (1851-1860)　The war and its aftermath (1861-1873)　The period of reflection and decline(1873-1892)Chapter 2 Historical and cultural contexts　Democracy　The body　The land　The cultureChapter 3 Poetry before the Civil War　1855: "Song of Myself"　Other poems dating from the 1855 Leaves of Grass　1856: poems of sexuality and the body　1856: poems of the earth　1856: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"　1860: Sea-Drift poems　1860: gendered clusters -"Children of Adam" and "Calamus"Chapter 4 Poetry after the Civil War　Elegiac poems　The emergence of the image　Minor poetic modesChapter 5 Prose works　The 1855 preface　Democratic Vistas　Specimen DaysChapter 6 Critical reception　The first fifty years, 1855-1905　1905-1955　1955-2005　Notes　Further reading　Index

章节摘录

The central event of Walt Whitman's life, literally and figuratively, was the publication of Leaves of Grass. The first edition appeared in 1855, when the poet was thirty-six years old. For the rest of his life, roughly thirty-six more years, he would revise and expand the book through six more editions, his work culminating in the Deathbed Edition of 1891-92. Whitman identified himself completely with Leaves of Grass. In the poem "So Long" at the end of the third (1860) edition, he says, "this is no book / Who touches this touches aman."1Whitman also identified strongly with US history and the American people. What Whitman called his "language experiment" paralleled the experiment of democracy in the new world, as he saw it.2 His book appeared first in the troubled years leading up to the Civil War. When war erupted in 1861, his life and his work were deeply altered.This chapter focuses on the close connection between Whitman's life and his writings. In briefly acknowledging the currents of history that touched Whitman most directly - the momentous effects of modernization in every-thing from the mass media and democratic politics to gender roles and war - it anticipates Chapter 2, which covers the main historical contexts. The chapter is divided into four parts: youth and literary apprenticeship (1819-50), the emergence of the poet (1851-60), the war and its aftermath (1861-73), and the period of reflection and decline (1873-92). Each part is keyed to different stages in Whitman's literary work and marked by shifts of emphasis in his poetic theories and practices occasioned by personal and historical change.

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用户评论 (总计1条)

•   这本书中英文相结合，有作者的中文导读和提问，对理解英语原文有很好的帮助~