The Symbol of the Bird in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Author | : John G. Campbell |
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Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : John G. Campbell |
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Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Wallace Stevens |
Publisher | : Stephen F. Austin University Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
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Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" appeared originally in 1917 and was subsequently published in his first book, Harmonium, in 1923. In a letter, Stevens once wrote that "this group of poems is not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations." If this is indeed the poet's intent, the poem provides readers with no fewer than thirteen perspectives or observances about blackbirds, but in those "thirteen ways" is the immeasurable culmination of sensations. Just as the poet's imagination invites readers to discover the infinite mysteries of the world and how these unify us in unexpected ways, Corinne Jones' new visual interpretation of Stevens' poem invites us, again, to re-explore the multiplicity of observation and subsequent knowledge. This new trade edition, a 10x10 reprint of the original fine arts book, juxtaposes Jones's beautiful and sensual prints of blackbirds against Stevens's poetic text. The result is that the life and power inherent in each artwork is increased wonderfully and vibrantly when taken as a whole.
Author | : Gyorgyi Voros |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1997-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1587292459 |
Focusing on three governing metaphors in Stevens's poems--Nature as house, body, and self--the author argues that Stevens's youthful wilderness experience yielded his primary poetic subject (the relationship between humans and nature) and shifted his understanding of nature from romantic to phenomenological. She draws on the extraliterary discourses of phenomenology and ecology, mapping the landscape of Stevens's career and canon. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Stephen Daniel Schmidt |
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Sarah A. Nolan |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9781124259390 |
Abstract: Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams are not typically considered environmental poets. However, both engage in important aspects of the debate over human relationships with nature. This thesis examines the development of each poet's unique environmental poetics in order to create a more widely applicable definition of ecological poetry. By examining the development of ecocentrism in Stevens's poetry, the gap between human perception and reality begins to close. This development then facilitates the development of Williams's sustainable language and allows him to create ecopoetry that expresses nature accurately. The connection between these two developing methodologies demonstrates that ecopoetics relies upon ecocentrism. Ecological poetry requires this drastic shift in perception in order to enact a linguistic reformation from the anthropocentric symbolism of conventional language and embody a language of nature.
Author | : Gyorgyi Voros |
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Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Ecology in literature |
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Author | : Cary Wolfe |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022668797X |
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens’s evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case. Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a “nonrepresentational” conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens’s poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. Ecological Poetics is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology.
Author | : Francis Edward Murphy |
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Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Arthur Walton Litz |
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Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Fredric Jameson |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1784783471 |
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity . The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.