Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic write by B. Eeckhout. This book was released on 2008-08-14. Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy write by Daniel Tompsett. This book was released on 2012-09-10. Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period, assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressively taken on the existential burden of our post-theological age. Tompsett argues that Stevens’ poetry attempts to ‘play’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of the language and form of Stevens’ poems, Tompsett uncovers the mythology his poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics.’
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens write by Bart Eeckhout. This book was released on 2022-07-12. The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous experience, and affective intensification. Such a poetic, they argue, invites flexible interpretations that respond to poetry as an art of textual performance. How did Stevens enact the relation between music and memory? How can we hear his verse as a form of melody-making? What was specific to his ways of recording birdsong? Have we been missing the latent music of Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Claude Debussy in particular poems? What were the musical poetics he shared with Igor Stravinsky? And how is our experience of the late poetry transformed when we listen to a musical setting by Ned Rorem? The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens will appeal to experts in the poet’s work, students of Modernism in the arts, and a wider audience fascinated by the dynamics of exchange between music and poetry.
Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction write by Edward Ragg. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edward 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'.
Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism
Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism write by Lisa Goldfarb. This book was released on 2012. Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of critical essays considers the impact of New York City on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. 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 book examines New York's influence at both the biographical and poetic levels, deepening our understanding of the poet.
