Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic

by B. Eeckhout (Editor), E. Ragg (Editor)

Overview

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230535848
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/14/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

CHARLES ALTIERI is Stageberg Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley, USA. MASSIMO BACIGALUPO is Professor of American Literature at University of Genoa, Italy, and President of the Italian Association of American Studies. JOSH COHEN is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. MARK FORD is Professor of English at University College London, UK. LISA GOLDFARB is on the faculty of New York University's Gallatin School, USA. DAVID HAGLUND is completing a DPhil on Stevens at Balliol College, Oxford University, UK. FRANK KERMODE is the author/editor of some forty volumes and one of the most distinguished critics of our time. HELGA KOS is a visual artist from Amsterdam. GEORGE LENSING is Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of English at University of North Carolina, USA. J. HILLIS MILLER is Research Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA and was formerly president of the Modern Language Association of America. JUSTIN QUINN is Associate Professor at the Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic. IRENE RAMALHO SANTOS is Professor of English and American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and International Affiliate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. GARETH REEVES is Reader in English at University of Durham, UK. ROBERT REHDER is Chair of English and American Literature, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK is Professor of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, USA.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface; F.Kermode Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That; B.Eeckhout& E.Ragg PART 1: DESCRIPTIONS WITHOUT PLACE: IDEAS OF EUROPE IN STEVENS 'The Switzerland of the Mind': Stevens' Invention of Europe; G.Lensing Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark); J.Hillis Miller Stevens' Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur; R.Rehder PART 2: BEYOND STATEN ISLAND: STEVENS IN TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy; C.Altieri 'Without human meaning': Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry; K.Ziarek Early Christianity in Late Stevens; J.Quinn 'The strange unlike': Stevens' Poetics of Resemblance; J.Cohen Stevens, Duchamp and the American 'Ism', 1915-1919; D.Haglund Picasso, Cézanne and Stevens' Abstract Engagements; E.Ragg Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Valéry; L.Goldfarb PART 3: GETTING IT STRAIGHT AT THE SORBONNE? STEVENS' AFTERLIFE IN EUROPE Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press; M.Ford A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson; G.Reeves A Poetics of Ignorance: António Ramos Rosa and Stevens; I.Ramalho Santos Reading Stevens in Italian; M.Bacigalupo Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun; H.Kos Index

Editorial Reviews

'Stevens would have approved of this refreshingly creative form of commentary' - Jeannie Vanasco, Times Literary Supplement

'Re-affirming the complexity of a Stevens who resists poetic or national definition as either fully within the American grain or within the European one, Wallace Stevens Across the Atlantic will equally appeal to Stevens experts, scholars of American Modernism, and comparative literature specialists. Moreover, in an academic world whose growing suspicion of the European centre has sometimes led to a sharp rejection of the European tradition altogether, this volume is also a salutary reminder of the interpretive riches to be gained from a refusal of any easy amalgamation between "Europhilia" and "Eurocentrism"'. - English Studies

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