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Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language

Stefan Holander
Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language Book PDF

Author : Stefan Holander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.

Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language

Kacper Bartczak,Jakub Mácha
Wallace Stevens Poetry Philosophy and Figurative Language Book PDF

Author : Kacper Bartczak,Jakub Mácha
Publisher : Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 3631769512

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Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language by Kacper Bartczak,Jakub Mácha Pdf

The book explores the relations between Wallace Stevens' poetry and issues in general philosophy, philosophy of language, and figurativeness. The chapters move from the question of the relation between poetry and philosophy to investigating the role of metaphor in Stevens' poems.

Poetic Gesture

Kristine S. Santilli
Poetic Gesture Book PDF

Author : Kristine S. Santilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136714139

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Poetic Gesture by Kristine S. Santilli Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens

Anca Rosu
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Author : Anca Rosu
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817358860

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The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens by Anca Rosu Pdf

Demonstrates that Wallace Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language.

Wallace Stevens and the Actual World

Alan Filreis
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Author : Alan Filreis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400861705

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Wallace Stevens and the Actual World by Alan Filreis Pdf

The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major periods of Stevens's career from 1939 to 1955, the war years and the postwar years. Portraying Stevens as someone whose alternation between cultural comprehension and ignorance was itself characteristically American, Filreis examines the poet's impulse to disguise and compress the very fact of his debt to the actual world. By actual world Stevens meant historical conditions, often in order to impugn his own interest in such externalities as the last resort of a man whose famous interiority made him feel desperately irrelevant. In light of events ranging from the U.S. entry into World War II to the Cold War, Filreis shows how Stevens was driven to make a "close approach to reality" in an effort to reconcile his poetic language with a cultural language. "Wallace Stevens and the Actual World is not only an impressive feat of historical recovery and analysis, but also a pleasure to read. It will be useful to anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and literature during World War II and the Cold War."--Milton J. Bates, Marquette University Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Necessary Angel

Wallace Stevens
The Necessary Angel Book PDF

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307790668

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The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens Pdf

In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the imagination manifesting itself in its domination of words." Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of repossessing reality through the imagination.

Wallace Stevens

Abbie F. Willard
Wallace Stevens Book PDF

Author : Abbie F. Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004504101

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Wallace Stevens by Abbie F. Willard Pdf

Selects, arranges, and assesses criticism of the twentieth century poet/ businessman on the basis of chronology, literary heritage, genre, world view, and self criticism, providing a direction for future analysis.

Things Merely Are

Simon Critchley
Things Merely Are Book PDF

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134251063

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Things Merely Are by Simon Critchley Pdf

This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he agues for a 'poetic epistemology' that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away. Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the 'mereness' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cinematic eye of Terrence Malick, whose work is discussed at the end of the book.

Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic

B. Eeckhout,E. Ragg
Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic Book PDF

Author : B. Eeckhout,E. Ragg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230583849

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Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic by B. Eeckhout,E. Ragg Pdf

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.

The Gaiety of Language

Frank Lentricchia
The Gaiety of Language Book PDF

Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520315631

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The Gaiety of Language by Frank Lentricchia Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens

Eleanor Cook
Poetry Word Play and Word War in Wallace Stevens Book PDF

Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400859665

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Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens by Eleanor Cook Pdf

In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to his latest work, and includes close readings of three of his remarkable long poems--Esthetique du Mal, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, and An Ordinary Evening in New Haven. The chronological arrangement enables readers to follow Stevens's increasing skill and changing thought in three areas of his "poetry of the earth": the poetry of place, the poetry of eros, and the poetry of belief. Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens shows how, in setting words at play and in conflict, Stevens could upset the usual relations of rhetoric, grammar, and dialectic, and thus the book contributes to the current debate about logical and a-logical uses of language. Cook also places Stevens within the larger context of Western literature, hearing how he speaks to Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth; to such American forebears as Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson; and to T. S. Eliot, his contemporary. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Book PDF

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307791870

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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens Pdf

An essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet." Originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens’s seventy-fifth birthday, the book was rushed into print for the occasion and contained scores of errors. These have now been corrected in one place for the first time by Stevens scholars John N. Serio and Christopher Beyers, based on original editions and manuscripts. The Collected Poems is the one volume that Stevens intended to contain all the poems he wished to preserve, presented in the way he wanted. It is an enduring monument to his dazzling achievement.

The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Thomas Jensen Hines
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Author : Thomas Jensen Hines
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

The Whole Harmonium

Paul Mariani
The Whole Harmonium Book PDF

Author : Paul Mariani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451624397

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The Whole Harmonium by Paul Mariani Pdf

An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred review), The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen moments. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing (and drinking) trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The complexity of Stevens’s poetry rests on emotional, philosophical, and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through his poems, both early and late. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read. Biographer and poet Paul Mariani’s The Whole Harmonium “is an excellent, superb, thrilling story of a mind….unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” (The New Yorker).

Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens

Bart Eeckhout,Lisa Goldfarb
Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens Book PDF

Author : Bart Eeckhout,Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501313493

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Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout,Lisa Goldfarb Pdf

As the figure of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) becomes so entrenched in the Modernist canon that he serves as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. The ambiguity of the preposition is intentional: while after may refer neutrally to chronological sequence, it also implies ways of aesthetically modeling poetry on a predecessor. Likewise, the general heading of poetry and poetics allows the sixteen contributors to this volume to range far and wide in terms of poetics (from postwar formalists to poets associated with various strands of Postmodernism, Language poetry, even Confessional poetry), ethnic identities (with a diverse selection of poets of color), nationalities (including the Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and several English poets), or language (sidestepping into French and Czech poetry). Besides offering a rich harvest of concrete case studies, Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens also reconsiders possibilities for talking about poetic influence. How can we define and refine the ways in which we establish links between earlier and later poems? At what level of abstraction do such links exist? What have we learned from debates about competing poetic eras and traditions? How is our understanding of an older writer reshaped by engaging with later ones? And what are we perhaps not paying attention to-aesthetically, but also politically, historically, thematically-when we relate contemporary poetry to someone as idiosyncratic as Stevens?