Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship: Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438430108 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Recovers Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.
Whitman s religion revolved around his concept of comradeship, an original alternative to the type of competitive masculinity emerging in the wake of industrialization and nineteenth-century capitalism. Shedding new light on the life and original message of a poet who warned future generation of treating him as a literary figure, Herrero Brasas concludes that Whitman was a moral reformer and grand theorist akin to other grand theorists of his day."
. Juan A. Herrero Brasas teaches ethics and religious studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of several books in Spanish, including Primera plana: La construcción de una cultura queer en España (Front Page: The Construction of a Queer Culture in Spain)
Now Voyager,go forth WALT WHITMAN'S MYSTICAL ETHICS of COMRADESHIP by J uan Brasas is a wondrous voyage of exploration into the long hidden world of Walt Whitman and his work. At last someone has had the honesty and ardor to look at the facts, the true happenings,and the brilliant poetry of an American genius -- all often edited or scrubbed by the apologist or "moralists" of today or the past. Reveali. The subversively anti-gay Whitman John Hamilton I don't usually resort to hyperbole, but, quite frankly, this is a staggeringly good book. It is one of those academic books that is so illuminating that one finds oneself repeatedly going back to reread sections over again. Brasas, whilst always scholarly, is never obscure or obfuscating. Indeed, he has a remarkably lucid prose style. The book begins, quite properly, by setting t