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Issue archive / 4 (2013)
Translating Walt Whitman’s “Barbaric Yawp.” Introduction

Authors: Ed Folsom
The University of Iowa
Keywords: comparative literature translation studies Walt Whitman “Song of Myself ”
Whole issue publication date:2013
Page range:9 (255-263)

Abstract

The introduction examines the origins and history of the word “yawp,” offers an overview of how Whitman’s “barbaric yawp” has been interpreted in criticism about “Song of Myself ” and suggests some of the challenges in translating the phrase.
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