Wallace Stevens And Poetic Theory

Author : B J Leggett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469622873

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Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory by B J Leggett Pdf

Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954. The author offers new readings of a number of poems and passages and clarifies certain controversial conceptions developed by Stevens, such as the supreme fiction, the relation of the new poet to tradition, and the psychologies of creativity. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Bobby Joe Leggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1111012524

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Wallace Stevens and poetic theory by Bobby Joe Leggett Pdf

Author : Krystyna Mazur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135877750

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Poetry and Repetition by Krystyna Mazur Pdf

The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text.

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226687971

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Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens’s Birds by Cary Wolfe Pdf

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens’s evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case. Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a “nonrepresentational” conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens’s poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. Ecological Poetics is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology.

Author : Samuel French Morse
Publisher : New York : Pegasus
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035062269

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Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life by Samuel French Morse Pdf

Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life delves into every phase of Stevens' life--from his childhood in Pennsylvania, his years at Harvard, and his short stay in New York to his life-long choice of a home in Hartford, Connecticut, and a career in the insurance business. The importance of Stevens' relationship to his father is stressed, and also the contribution to his growth of Santayana, Bergson, Pater, and Pascal, among others. His deep feeling for things French, and his unusual appreciation of painting are also assessed, as they relate to the development of his finely tempered artistry and special conception of art.

Author : Bart Eeckhout
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826262691

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Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing by Bart Eeckhout Pdf

Often considered America's greatest twentieth-century poet, Wallace Stevens is without a doubt the Anglo-modernist poet whose work has been most scrutinized from a philosophical perspective. Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing both synthesizes and extends the critical understanding of Stevens's poetry in this respect. Arguing that a concern with the establishment and transgression of limits goes to the heart of this poet's work, Bart Eeckhout traces both the limits of Stevens's poetry and the limits of writing as they are explored by that poetry. Stevens's work has been interpreted so variously and contradictorily that critics must first address the question of limits to the poetry's signifying potential before they can attempt to deepen our appreciation of it. In the first half of this book, the limits of appropriating and contextualizing Stevens's "The Snow Man," in particular, are investigated. Eeckhout does not undertake this reading with the negative purpose of disputing earlier interpretations but with the more positive intention of identifying the intrinsic qualities of the poetry that have been responsible for the remarkable amount of critical attention it has received.

Author : Thomas Gould,Ian Tan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837644889

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Wallace Stevens In Theory by Thomas Gould,Ian Tan Pdf

The modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract medium through which to think about and theorize not only philosophical concepts like metaphor and reality, but also a unifying thesis about the nature of poetry itself. At the same time, literary theorists and philosophers have often turned to Stevens as a canonical reference point and influence. In the centenary year of Wallace Stevens’s first collection Harmonium (1923), this collection asks what it means to theorize with Stevens today. Through a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this book seeks to describe the myriad kinds of thinking sponsored by Stevens’s poetry and explores how contemporary literary theory might be invigorated through readings of Stevens.

Author : Stefan Holander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135914011

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Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language by Stefan Holander Pdf

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 : Siobhan Phillips
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231149303

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The Poetics of the Everyday by Siobhan Phillips Pdf

Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"--recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of cyclic dualism. In Frost, she explains the theoretical depth of a habitual "middle way." In Bishop's work, she identifies the attempt to turn recurrent mornings into a "ceremony" rather than a sentence, and in Merrill, she shows how cosmic theories rely on daily habits. Phillips ultimately demonstrates that a poetics of everyday time contributes not only to a richer understanding of these four writers but also to descriptions of their era, estimations of their genre, and ongoing reconfigurations of the issues that literature reflects and illuminates.

Author : Thomas Jensen Hines
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083871613X

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The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens by Thomas Jensen Hines Pdf

This is a study of the development of the middle and later poetry of Wallace Stevens that uses comparisons with the phenomenological methods of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to clarify many of the difficulties in the poet's mature work.

Author : Bart Eeckhout,Gül Bilge Han
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108833295

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The New Wallace Stevens Studies by Bart Eeckhout,Gül Bilge Han Pdf

This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.

Author : Kristine S. Santilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136714139

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Poetic Gesture by Kristine S. Santilli Pdf

This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.

Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Gaiety of Language by Frank Lentricchia Pdf

Author : Theodore Sampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015049536611

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A Cure of the Mind by Theodore Sampson Pdf

Argues that Wallace Stevens' poetry defies interpretation, that his long poems, particularly, remain too open-ended for rational paraphrase.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106014603820

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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96) by Wallace Stevens Pdf

Collected Poetry and Prose.