Screen LibraryWallace Stevens across the Atlantic
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 whic...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230583849 |
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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. 'Stevens would have approved of this refreshingly creative form of commentary' - Jeannie Vanasco, Times Literary Supplement. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 264 p. |
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9780230535848 9780230583849 : 0230583849 : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface-- F.Kermode Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That-- B.Eeckhout & E.Ragg PART 1: DESCRIPTIONS WITHOUT PLACE: IDEAS OF EUROPE IN STEVENS 'The Switzerland of the Mind': Stevens' Invention of Europe-- G.Lensing Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark)-- J.Hillis Miller Stevens' Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur-- R.Rehder PART 2: BEYOND STATEN ISLAND: STEVENS IN TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy-- C.Altieri 'Without human meaning': Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry |