The New Wallace Stevens Studies

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The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second section applies recent methodological and theoretical advances that have left a prominent mark on literary studies - from world literature and ecocriticism to urban studies, queer studies, intersectional thinking, and cognitive literary studies. Essays in the third section reassess issues that have long inspired critics. Here investigations include Stevens's reception by later poets, his attitude toward modern fiction, different modes of his poetic thinking, aspects of his rhetoric and style, and his lyrical ethics. This volume captures a cross-section of the most striking recent developments in Stevens criticism. Copyright_page Contents Contributors Abbreviations Introduction That Which Is Always Beginning part i emerging concepts in stevens criticism 1 Imperialism and Colonialism 2 The Politics of Utopia 3 Community and Audience 4 Secularism 5 Transnationalism part ii recent critical methods applied to stevens 6 World Literature 7 Ecological Poetics 8 Urban Studies 9 Queer Studies 10 Intersectional Studies 11 Cognitive Literary Studies part iii revisionary readings of stevens 12 Poetic Responses 13 Poetic Fiction 14 Poetic Thinking 15 Constructive Disorderings 16 Manner and Manners 17 Lyrical Ethics Index