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1 online resource (x, 251 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Edward Ragg's study re-considers the role of abstraction in 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'"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 8216;Stevensian and the question of abstraction 19358211;2009 -- CHAPTER 1 The abstract impulse: from anecdote to 8216;new romantic in harmonium (1923) and ideas of order (1935) -- CHAPTER 2 The turn to abstraction: owls clover (1936) and the 8216;un-locatable speaker in The Man with the blue guitar (1937) -- CHAPTER 3 The 8216;in-visible abstract: Stevens idealism from Coleridge to Merleau-Ponty -- 3.1 Romantic adaptations: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Stevens -- 3.2 Abstract analogues: Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Stevens -- 3.3 The touch of Henri Focillon -- 3.4 Coda: the New Criticism and abstraction -- CHAPTER 4 Abstract figures: the curious case of the idealist 8216;I -- 4.1 Taming 8216;the guerrilla I: the early poems of parts of a world (1942) -- 4.2 From 8216;robust poet to idealist 8216;I: 8216;The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942) and 8216;The Figure of the Youth as virile poet (1943) -- 4.3 The human abstract in 8216;Landscape with Boat (1940) -- CHAPTER 5 Abstract appetites: food, wine and the idealist 8216;I -- 5.1 Tasting 8216;Certain Phenomena of Sound (1942) -- 5.2 Hartford Bourguignon: 8216;Montrachet-Le-Jardin (1942) and cymbeline -- CHAPTER 6 The pure good of theory: a new abstract emphasis -- 6.1 8216;Major man revised: 8216;Paisant Chronicle (1945) and 8216;Description Without Place (1945) -- 6.2 Writing 8216;beyond: 8216;Repetitions of a Young Captain (1944) and 8216;Three Academic Pieces (1947) -- 6.3 Pragmatic abstraction v metaphor: 8216;The Pure Good of Theory (1945) and macbeth -- CHAPTER 7 Bourgeois abstraction: poetry, painting and the idea of mastery in late Stevens -- 7.1 Mastery of life:160;at home with Wallace Stevens -- 7.2 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works of wa ll ace stevens -- Other works -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Aesthetics.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. |
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Aesthetics. |
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Abstraction in literature.
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Abstraction in literature. |
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Art and literature.
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Art and literature. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ragg, Edward, 1976- Wallace Stevens and the aesthetics of abstraction. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521190862 (DLC) 2010014635 (OCoLC)535491514 |
| ISBN |
9780511789519 (electronic book) |
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0511789513 (electronic book) |
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9780521190862 (Cloth) |
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052119086X (Cloth) |
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9780511761003 (ebook) |
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0511761007 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
9786612723551 |
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