Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language

Informationen zum Autor Stefan Holander is currently working as Associate Professor at Finnmark University College, North Norway. His article, "Between Categories: Modernist and Postmodernist Appropriations of Wallace Stevens", was published in the anthology Rethinking Modernism Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Stevens’ Closures Chapter Two: Motion and Voice Chapter Three: Rejections: Poetry Against Poetry Chapter Four: Toward a New Aesthetics: Farewell to Florida Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Stefan Holander, Stefan (Finnmark University College) Holander, Holander Stefan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780415955966
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95596-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 248 mm x 152 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism