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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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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