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Luminous Traversing : Wallace Stevens and the American Sublime

By Jacek , Stevens , Wallace; Gutorow

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year
2012
ISBN
3631623305, 978-3-631-62330-5, 978-3-653-01677-2, 3653016770
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-01677-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1945526 bytes)
Series
Katowice Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies
Edition
1st New edition
Pages
203\203
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1879-1955-- 1879-1955. Sublimein literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. SteveStevensTheWallace

Description

As Wallace Stevens once wrote, «a poem should be part of one’s sense of life». This book provides a record of readerly and critical explorations of the poems and life of the American poet. The author reads Stevens’s poems in the context of both the existing critical works and the commentaries provided by the poet himself (essays, letters, occasional notes and posthumous texts), and aims to prove that his artistic development was informed by two contradictory existential projects: teleological, based on Stevens’s assumption of a higher self which in its turn helps to illuminate the meaning and dynamics of the actual existence, and critical, appearing at the very moment when one questions his or her identity and assumes life to be an open and unfinished process

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