Description: Poetry, Word-play, and Word-war in Wallace Stevens, Hardcover by Cook, Eleanor, ISBN 0691636192, ISBN-13 9780691636191, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevenss word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevenss skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevenss poetry, moving from his earliest to his latest work, and includes close readings of three of his remarkable long poems--Esthetique du Mal, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, and An Ordinary Evening in New Haven. The chronological arrangement enables readers to follow Stevenss increasing skill and changing thought in three areas of his "poetry of the earth": the poetry of place, the poetry of eros, and the poetry of belief.
Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens shows how, in setting words at play and in conflict, Stevens could upset the usual relations of rhetoric, grammar, and dialectic, and thus th contributes to the current debate about logical and a-logical uses of language. Cook also places Stevens within the larger context of Western literature, hearing how he speaks to Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth; to such American forebears as Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson; and to T. S. Eliot, his contemporary.
Originally published in 1988.
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Book Title: Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Style Manuals, Form / Puns & Wordplay, Linguistics / Semantics, American / General, Poetry
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor
Item Weight: 23 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Eleanor Cook
Item Width: 6.7 in
Book Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Hardcover
