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Author: Bart Eeckhout
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108833292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.
Author: Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1136330453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: John N. Serio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-01-18
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1139827545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWallace 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
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1108491774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a new conception of modernist autonomy by focusing on Wallace Stevens, one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century.
Author: Glen MacLeod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-12-22
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 110821052X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Alan Filreis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-07-29
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521453844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of relations between American radicalism and modernism in the 1930s, focusing on Wallace Stevens.
Author: Edward Ragg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139489992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdward Ragg's study was the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg's detailed close-readings highlight the poet's absorption of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century painting, as well as the examples of philosophers and other poets' work. Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction will appeal to those studying Stevens as well as anyone interested in the relations between poetry and painting. This valuable study embraces revealing philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens' place within and resistance to Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, representation and 'the imagination'.
Author: James Longenbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0195070224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'This distinguished book sets forth the Stevens that we will be reading for at least the next three decades: a Stevens in close touch with political and social conditions, a Stevens whose poetry arises from the texture of his times.'-Louis Martz
Author: Cary Wolfe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 022668797X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780674945753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also "words chosen out of desire."
