Abstract
Explores the various and often contradictory views Whitman expressed over time about literary culture, heritage, genres, and canonicity; following Pierre Bourdieu, describes the "discourse of distinction" by which Whitman negotiates the "double logic" of desiring "distinction from the culturally distinguished literary modes
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Beach, C., (1994) “Walt Whitman, Literary Culture, and the Discourse of Distinction”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12(2), 73-85. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1436
Rights: Copyright © 1994 Christopher Beach
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