Mind of winter : Wallace Stevens, meditation, and literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bevis, William W., 1941- (Author)
Corporate Author: University of Pittsburgh. University Library System. Digital Research Library
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1988.
Series:Critical essays in modern literature.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
Subjects:
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955.
Stevens, Wallace > 1879-1955.
Stevens, Wallace.
Meditation in literature.
Buddhism in literature.
Philosophy, Asian, in literature.
Spiritual life in literature.
Méditation dans la littérature.
Bouddhisme dans la littérature.
Philosophie orientale dans la littérature.
Vie spirituelle dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Meditation.
Lyrik.
Meditations (Buddhism) in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The snow man. An issue: Nirvana
  • An example: "The snow man"
  • Four types of mysticism
  • Meditative perception: "The course of a particular"
  • Meditation and Stevens' lyrics. The structure of meditative experience
  • The middle way: "A clear day and no memories"
  • The meditative Stevens: "The latest freed man"
  • The physiology of meditation
  • Self and will
  • Language, mind, and no-mind: "not ideas about the thing but the thing itself"
  • The tragedy of desire in "Esthétique du Mal"
  • Whence Stevens? Turn of the century
  • Yeat's Chatterji
  • Santayana's angels
  • Pound's Cathay
  • Stevens' readings
  • Stevens' walks
  • Overlooking nothing: the critics
  • The comedy of consciousness: Stevens' long poems. Fragments and change
  • Opus 130 and the politics of emotion
  • Four types of form
  • The comedy of consciousness
  • Postscript: Stevens, meditation, and modernism.

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