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Delphine Rumeau, « The Russian Whitman and World Literature », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10670/1.5c7fc6...
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This paper examines Whitman’s reception in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century and in the first two decades of the USSR. The subject has in itself been much covered by critics, but the angle here is quite specific. The aim is to understand how Whitman’s reception was part of emerging conceptions of World literature, first as a dense network where texts circulated, then as constituting an international revolutionary canon. Whitman’s reception was shaped by these diverging conceptions, but it also played a role in establishing them: the paper focuses on these dialectics. Whitman’s reception in Russia and in the USSR is therefore considered in a broader context: the paper examines how this reception echoed that of other European countries, and how, in return, it shaped Whitman’s reception as a communist poet in US Proletarian poetry and, after WW2, in Latin American poetry.
