Art and argument: The rise of Walt Whitman's rhetorical poetics, 1838--1855
This dissertation uses the rhetorical theory of Kenneth Burke to illuminate the development of Walt Whitman's rhetorical poetics, in which Whitman sought to transform the reader's identity from one based on static and divisive notions of race, class, region, and gender to a malleable ident...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1999
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9950161 |