WWQR > Vol. 12 (1994) > No. 2
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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Copyright © 1994 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Beach, Christopher. "Walt Whitman, Literary Culture, and the Discourse of Distinction." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (Fall 1994), 73-85.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol12/iss2/2
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