Mind of Winter : Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bevis, William W., 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stevens, Wallace.
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stevens, Wallace > 1879-1955
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955.
Philosophy, Asian, in literature.
Meditations (Buddhism) in literature.
Meditation
Lyrik
Spiritual life in literature.
Meditation in literature.
Buddhism in literature.
Vie spirituelle dans la litterature.
Philosophie orientale dans la litterature.
Bouddhisme dans la litterature.
Meditation dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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 "Esthetique 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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