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This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of
Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of
Stevens's poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin
Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a
philosophical reading of Stevens, it uses Heidegger's theories as a
framework through which Stevens's poetry can be read and shows how
philosophy and literature can enter into a productive dialogue. It
also makes a case for a Heideggerian reading of poetry, exploring
his later philosophy with respect to his writing on art, language,
and poetry. Taking Stevens's repeated emphasis on the terms
"being", "consciousness", "reality" and "truth" as its starting
point, the book provides a new reading of Stevens with a
philosopher who aligns poetic insight with a reconceptualization of
the metaphysical significance of these concepts. It pursues the
link between philosophy, American poetry as reflected through
Stevens, and modernist poetics, looking from Stevens's modernist
techniques to broader European philosophical movements of the
twentieth century.
This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of
Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of
Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin
Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a
philosophical reading of Stevens, it uses Heidegger’s theories as
a framework through which Stevens’s poetry can be read and shows
how philosophy and literature can enter into a productive dialogue.
It also makes a case for a Heideggerian reading of poetry,
exploring his later philosophy with respect to his writing on art,
language, and poetry. Taking Stevens’s repeated emphasis on the
terms “being”, “consciousness”, “reality” and
“truth” as its starting point, the book provides a new reading
of Stevens with a philosopher who aligns poetic insight with a
reconceptualization of the metaphysical significance of these
concepts. It pursues the link between philosophy, American poetry
as reflected through Stevens, and modernist poetics, looking from
Stevens’s modernist techniques to broader European philosophical
movements of the twentieth century.
The modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of
theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract medium through
which to think about and theorize not only philosophical concepts
like metaphor and reality, but also a unifying thesis about the
nature of poetry itself. At the same time, literary theorists and
philosophers have often turned to Stevens as a canonical reference
point and influence. In the centenary year of Wallace Stevens’s
first collection Harmonium (1923), this collection asks what it
means to theorize with Stevens today. Through a range of critical
and theoretical perspectives, this book seeks to describe the
myriad kinds of thinking sponsored by Stevens’s poetry and
explores how contemporary literary theory might be invigorated
through readings of Stevens.
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