Wallace Stevens and the limits of reading and writing /
"Stevens's work has been interpreted so variously and contradictorily that critics must first address the question of limits to the poetry's signifying potential before they can attempt to deepen our appreciation of it. In the first half of this book, the limits of appropriating and c...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2002.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Impossible possible philosophers' poetry
- PART ONE: Limits of appropriation and contextualization
- Reading Stevens
- It must resist the intelligence almost successfully
- It must be served like Sukiyaki
- It must be intertextualized
- It must be made of snow: a case study
- Triangulating pleasure, doubt, and irritation
- PART TWO: Limits of perception, thought, and language
- Infuriating philosophers
- Between matter and mind
- Between the senses of sense
- Between mimesis and music
- Between metaphor and X
- Poeticizing epistemology.