252 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact... Read more
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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
Biography
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
