The New Wallace Stevens Studies

Author : Bart Eeckhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833292
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Wallace Stevens Studies written by Bart Eeckhout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.

Author : Bart Eeckhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108976743
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Wallace Stevens Studies written by Bart Eeckhout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second section applies recent methodological and theoretical advances that have left a prominent mark on literary studies - from world literature and ecocriticism to urban studies, queer studies, intersectional thinking, and cognitive literary studies. Essays in the third section reassess issues that have long inspired critics. Here investigations include Stevens's reception by later poets, his attitude toward modern fiction, different modes of his poetic thinking, aspects of his rhetoric and style, and his lyrical ethics. This volume captures a cross-section of the most striking recent developments in Stevens criticism.

Author : Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415899109
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism written by Lisa Goldfarb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays considers the impact of New York City on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Recent criticism of the poet has sought to understand how Stevens interacted with the literary, artistic, and cultural forces of his time to forge his inimitable aesthetic, with its peculiar mix of post-romantic responses to nature and a metropolitan cosmopolitanism. This book examines New York's influence at both the biographical and poetic levels, deepening our understanding of the poet.

Author : John N. Serio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827545
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens written by John N. Serio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry. A brief biographical sketch anchors Stevens in the real world and illuminates important personal and intellectual influences. The essays following chart Stevens' poetic career and his affinities with both earlier and contemporary writers, artists, and philosophers. Other essays introduce students to the peculiarity and distinctiveness of Stevens' voice and style. They explain prominent themes in his work and explore the nuances of his aesthetic theory. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion provides all the information a student or scholar of Stevens will need.

Author : Gül Bilge Han
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491774
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy written by Gül Bilge Han and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new conception of modernist autonomy by focusing on Wallace Stevens, one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century.

Author : Stefan Holander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135914001
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language written by Stefan Holander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. In this respect, the study deals closely with the epistemologically and ethically fraught issue of the ambiguous and volatile role of non-semantic elements and linguistic difficulty in Stevens' language. Assuming that these facets are not exclusive to this period but receive a very clear, and therefore instructive, formulation in it, the discussion outlines some of Stevens' most central tropes for poetic creativity at this stage of his career, suggesting ways in which they came to form part of his later discourse on poetic functionality, when polemical concepts for the imagination, such as "evasion" and "escapism," became central. Stevens' prosody is discussed from within an eclectic analytical framework in which cumulative rhythmics is complemented by traditional metrics as a way of doing justice to his rich, varied and cognitively volatile use of verse language. The expressive potency of prosodic patterning is understood both as an effect of its resistance to semantic interpretation and by assuming a formal drive to interpret them in relation to the semantic and metaphoric staging of individual poems. A poem, in turn, is understood both as a strategic, stylistically deviant response to the challenges of a particular historical moment, and as an attempt to communicate through creating a sense of linguistic resistance and otherness.

Author : Glen MacLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110821052X
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens in Context written by Glen MacLeod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the great twentieth-century American poets. In thirty-six short essays, an international team of distinguished scholars have created a comprehensive overview of Stevens' life and the world of his poetry. Individual chapters relate Stevens to important contexts such as the large Western movements of romanticism and modernism; particular American and European philosophical traditions; contemporary and later poets; the professional realms of law and insurance; the parallel art forms of painting, music, and theater; his publication history, critical reception, and his international reputation. Other chapters address topics of current interest such as war, politics, religion, race and the feminine. Informed by the latest developments in the field, but written in clear, jargon-free prose, Wallace Stevens in Context is an indispensable introduction to this great modern poet.

Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023316
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by James Longenbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea that Stevens lived a double life, the author maintains, is misleading. This compelling book uncovers what Stevens liked to think of as his "ordinary" life, a life in which the demands of politics, economics, poetry, and everyday distractions coexisted, sometimes peacefully and sometimes not. Examining the full scope of Stevens's career (from the student-poet of the nineteenth century to the award-winning poet of the Cold War years), Longenbach reveals that Stevens was not only aware of events taking place around him, but often inspired by those events. The major achievements of Stevens's career are shown to coalesce around the major historical events of his lifetime (the Great Depression and two World Wars); but Longenbach also dwells on Stevens's two extended periods of poetic silence, exploring the crucial aspects of Steven's life that were not exclusively poetic. Longenbach demonstrates that through Stevens's work in surety law he was far more intimately acquainted with legal and economic concerns than most poets, and he consequently thought deeply about the strengths--and, equally important, the limitations--of poetry as a social product and force.

Author : Alan Filreis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521453844
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism from Right to Left written by Alan Filreis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of relations between American radicalism and modernism in the 1930s, focusing on Wallace Stevens.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804715492
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects written by Wallace Stevens and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms.