{"title":"Poetic Connections: Sympathy and Community in Whitman's \"Song of Myself\"","authors":"Jill Marsden","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0025","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:If to be sympathetic to others is a prerequisite for harmonious community, how does this function in the absence of identities in common? In his figurations of sympathy as auto-poetic affectivity, Walt Whitman's \"Song of Myself\" offers a way, exceeding the humanist register on which much thinking about community relies.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0025","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:If to be sympathetic to others is a prerequisite for harmonious community, how does this function in the absence of identities in common? In his figurations of sympathy as auto-poetic affectivity, Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" offers a way, exceeding the humanist register on which much thinking about community relies.