Weaving History: A New Historicist Dialogue on Power, Anxiety, and Spider Imagery in Whitman and Yuan Mei
This study aims to examine the spider imagery in Walt Whitman’s and Yuan Mei’s poetry through a New Historicist lens. It reveals the role this imagery plays in a cross-cultural dialogue on power and anxiety. By integrating Foucault’s “power discourse”, Greenblatt’s “cultural negotiation” and Althusser’s “symptomatic re...