Wallace Stevens New York And Modernism

Author : Lisa Goldfarb,Bart Eeckhout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136330452

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Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism by Lisa Goldfarb,Bart Eeckhout Pdf

This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that mattered to him privately and poetically: visits to galleries and museums, theatrical and musical performances, intellectual and artistic gatherings, shopping sprees and gastronomical indulgences. 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 volume deepens our understanding of the multiple ways in which New York and its various aesthetic attractions figured in Stevens’ life, both at a biographical and poetic level.

Author : Lisa Goldfarb,Bart Eeckhout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415899109

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Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism by Lisa Goldfarb,Bart Eeckhout Pdf

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 : Bart Eeckhout,Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 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?

Author : Bart Eeckhout,Gül Bilge Han
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Paul Mariani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,6 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).

Author : Mark Whalan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108808026

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The Cambridge History of American Modernism by Mark Whalan Pdf

The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

Author : Gül Bilge Han
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108491778

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Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy by Gül Bilge Han Pdf

Offers a new conception of modernist autonomy by focusing on Wallace Stevens, one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century.

Author : Albert Gelpi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 071009647X

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Wallace Stevens by Albert Gelpi Pdf

Author : Derek Gladwin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954699

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Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture by Derek Gladwin Pdf

Gastro-Modernism ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.

Author : Alan Filreis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521453844

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Modernism from Right to Left by Alan Filreis Pdf

A study of relations between American radicalism and modernism in the 1930s, focusing on Wallace Stevens.

Author : David Ben-Merre
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781438468334

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Figures of Time by David Ben-Merre Pdf

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time. Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.

Author : David E. Chinitz,Gail McDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118604441

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A Companion to Modernist Poetry by David E. Chinitz,Gail McDonald Pdf

Offering a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry provides readers with detailed discussions of individual poets, ‘schools’ and ‘movements’ within modernist poetry, and the cultural and historical context of the modernist period. Provides an in-depth and accessible summary of the latest trends in the study of modernist poetry Balances discussion of individual poets, ‘schools’, and ‘movements’ with in-depth literary and historical context Brings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while also providing guidance on poets who are historically important Edited by highly respected and notable critics in the field who have a broad knowledge of current debates and of rising and senior scholars in the field

Author : Edward Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108496322

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Modernist Invention by Edward Allen Pdf

Modernist Invention attends to the parallel histories of media technology and modernist American poetry.

Author : John N. Serio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827546

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The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio Pdf

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 : R. Gregory,B. Kohlmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230358300

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Utopian Spaces of Modernism by R. Gregory,B. Kohlmann Pdf

This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars.