There have been a few exceptional readings on the relationships between American visual culture and Walt Whitman’s poetry. Many critics, however, do not go deeper into reflecting the complex matrix of Whitman’s poetic language and the effects of visual arts made by his comtemporary artists. This essay proposes that Whitman’s encounters with the paintings of Millet and Courbet had awakened in him a sense of realization of poetic democracy. Whitman’s poetic experiments and exploration featured by the notions such as enumeration, repetition, and catalogue can be re-evaluated as ‘poetry of presence’ in which the conjunction between Whitman’s language and painter’s lines and colors creates a very interesting reciprocity. As the cross-disciplinary appeal of Walt Whitman’s language experiments and visual modes of representation, this essay tries to give the prescient observation of Whitman’s transfusion of American democracy beyond the thematic and subjective affinities of Whitman and visual artists.
Ⅰ. 들어가며
Ⅱ. 대담한 장면들: 휘트먼과 밀레
Ⅲ. 몸과 재현: 휘트먼과 쿠르베
Ⅳ. 경험의 동시성과 민주주의
Ⅴ. 글을 나가며
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