Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens /

Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens / / Eleanor Cook.

In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a gen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Cook, Eleanor,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 932
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Harmonium
  • 1. Places, Common and Other: A Rhetoric of Beginning
  • 2. The Play and War of Venus: Love Poems and Florida Poems
  • 3. The Limits of Word-Play: The Comedian as the Letter C
  • 4. The Ludus of Allusion: Poems of Voice and Death
  • 5. Ways of Ending: Religious and Last Poems
  • II. Transition
  • 6. A Rhetoric of Beginning Again: Ideas of Order
  • 7. Concerning the Nature of Things: The Man with the Blue Guitar
  • 8. Against Synecdoche: Parts of a World
  • III. Transport to Summer
  • 9. Transport and the Metaphor Poems
  • 10. War and the Normal Sublime: Esthetique du Mal
  • 11. Notes toward a Supreme Fiction
  • IV. The Auroras and After
  • 12. Commonplace Apocalypse: An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
  • 13. Late Poems: Places, Common and Other
  • Index to Works by Wallace Stevens
  • General Index

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