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Divine style Walt Whitman and the King James Bible
Title
Divine style [electronic resource] : Walt Whitman and the King James Bible / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp.
ISBN
9781805111030
9781805111047
9781805111078
9781805111016 (pbk.)
9781805111023 (hbk.)
Publication
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2024]
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 386 pages) : 50 illustrations, 7 tables
Notes
Additional resources available from the publisher's website. The material added here is organized according to the chapter to which they are related. The numbering signals the relevant chapter (e.g., Document 2a is related to Chapter Two).
Access and use
Unrestricted online access.
This work is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
Summary
"In exploring the seminal works of Walt Whitman, the great American poet, many commentators have acknowledged the underlying influence of The King James Bible. However, a study has yet to elucidate the precise manner in which the Bible has shaped Whitman's poetic style. This is the deficit that F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp seeks to address in his new piece of literary scholarship: 'Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible'. Dobbs-Allsopp, Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, explicitly approaches Whitman from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Utilising his wealth of expertise in this field, he constructs a compelling, erudite and methodical argument for the King James Bible's importance in the evolution of Whitman's style - from his signature long lines to the prevalence of parallelism and tendency towards parataxis in his works. 'Divine Style' focuses on Whitman's output in the years preceding the release of his 1855 opus 'Leaves of Grass' through the general period of the book's first three editions. In this, Dobbs-Allsopp's exploration of the period is exhaustive - covering not just Leaves of Grass but recently recovered notebooks, newly digitised manuscripts and additions to the corpus, such as the novel 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'. This is a work of careful, detailed scholarship, offering an authoritative commentary that will be a valuable resource for students of Whitman, biblical scholars and scholars of literature more generally."--Publisher's website.
Variant and related titles
Open book publishers.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliography (pages 351-370) and index.
Contents
Additional Resources. [Document] 2a. "Whitman's Prose from 1850 to 1853
[Document] 2b. "Biblicisms in 'Jack Engle.'"
[Document] 2c. "The Song of Songs and Whitman's Love Poetry."
[Document] 2d. "'Lilacs' and the Bible."
[Document] 3a. "Long(er) Lines in the 1850 Poems and Early Notebooks."
[Document] 3b. "Word Counts in the 1855 Leaves and the KJB: A Statement on Method."
[Document] 4a. "A Collection of Internally Parallel Lines from the 1855 Leaves
[Document] 4b. "Parallelism in the 'Pre-Verse' from 'A Child's Reminiscence."
[Document] 5a. "Prose into Poetry: 'Advance Shapes like his shape.'"
[Audio] Walt Whitman Recording.
Introduction / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
1. Whitman on the Bible / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
2. The Bible in Whitman: Quotation, Allusion, Echo / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
3. Whitman's Line: "Found" in the KJB? / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
4. Parallelism: In the (Hebrew) Bible and in Whitman / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
5. "The Divine Style": An American Prose Style Poeticized / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
Afterword / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp.
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