Comrade Whitman : from Russian to internationalist icon /
The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond literary stakes. Whitman's proclaimed heirs often saw him as a prophet of a new world. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of the poet, sh...
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Brookline, Massachusetts :
Academic Studies Press,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Whitman as a primitive (1880s-1910s)
- The futurist poet (1910s-1920s)
- Whitman the prophet (1880s-1930s)
- From democrat to socialist (1880s-1919)
- The extraordinary adventures of Walt Whitman in the land of the Bolsheviks (1918-1936)
- Between the wars : a transatlantic fellow traveler (1919-1938)
- Pioneers and pionery : political transfers (1886-1944)
- Anti-fascist Whitman (1936-1945)
- "Salut au monde" across the Iron Curtain (1946-1956)
- Back from the USSR (1955-1980s).