“American National Literature. Is there any such thing – or, can there ever be?”: Walt Whitman e le strategie di selezione del canone tra discorso metaletterario e politica culturale

The present contribution deals with the strategies of selection, which lay at the basis of the so-called national literary canons, by examining a number of critical prose essays written by the American poet Walt Whitman. Under a sociological perspective, Whitman’s essays may be considered not only...

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Main Author: Francesca Razzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2020-01-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/12955

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