Wallace Stevens and the aesthetics of abstraction /

"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�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ragg, Edward, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955 > Aesthetics.
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955.
Abstraction in literature.
Art and literature.
Abstraction dans la littérature.
Art et littérature.
POETRY > American > General.
Aesthetics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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