Elasticity of the American Map: The Conflict between Myth and Organicism in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
| المصدر: | آداب القيروان |
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| الناشر: | جامعة القيروان - كلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية |
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | Ben Amor, Farhat (Author) |
| المجلد/العدد: | ع13 |
| محكمة: | نعم |
| الدولة: |
تونس |
| التاريخ الميلادي: |
2018
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| الشهر: | أكتوبر |
| الصفحات: | 81 - 94 |
| ISSN: |
0330-6771 |
| رقم MD: | 994854 |
| نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| قواعد المعلومات: | HumanIndex |
| مواضيع: | |
| كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية: |
America(Ns) | Elasticity | Imperialism | Map; Myth, Organicism | selfives
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| رابط المحتوى: |
عدد مرات التحميل
2
| المستخلص: |
This article sets out to analyze the conflict between myth and organicism with respect to "Song of Myself,'' the major opening poem of the whole volume Leaves of Grass. My basic purpose is to show the poet's vain attempt to bring the image of the American map doser to the reader through organicizing it. In fact, I notice that the orgy of the limitless expansion of America tempo-spatially acts to deter such organicism and to enshrine, instead, a myth that never ceases surrounding the contours of the American map. Not only arc these contours made ungraspable and, consequently elusive of any physical boundary whether in time or space, but also the Americans themselves are combined together in Whitman's song as to form a splendid mosaic that can hardly be apprehended organically. Given the anchorage of such a mosaic (which contains all the Americans in its shape) in the borderless American map, the American people, then, are implicitly imparted the same mythical grandeur that resists, accordingly, any attempt to be organically seized. Just as he mythologizes the American map in terms of an endless process of elasticity, Whitman presents the Americans, who are the chief constituents of this map, within the same mythical tenor inasmuch as they maintain: an everlasting youth that (to use an organic term), never 'withers.' |
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| ISSN: |
0330-6771 |
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