1st Edition
Poetry and Repetition Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery
By Krystyna Mazur
Copyright 2005
204 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This book examines the function of repetition in the work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. All three poets extensively employ and comment upon the effects of repetition, yet represent three distinct poetics, considerably removed from one another in stylistic and historical terms. At the same time, the three are engaged in a highly interesting relation to each other - a relation... Read more
1. The Difference Repetition Makes: Philosophy of Repetition 2. 'Thinking with AND': Whitman's Repetitions and the Thought of the Multiple 3. 'The Motion of Thought and Its Restless Iteration': Wallace Stevens and the Turns of Repetition 4. 'The Unfamiliar Stereotype': Repetition in the Poetry of John Ashbery
Biography
Krystyna Mazur received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1996. She currently teaches in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University.
