Wallace Stevens & the FeminineMelita Schaum American poet Wallace Stevens has been at the centre of most major critical controversies of the 20th century, from the early emergence of New Criticism through the past decade's battles over poststructuralism. This collection of 10 essays by scholars of Stevens and modernism explores various aspects of the feminine in Steven's writings and his life. Together, the essays demonstrate how a focus on gender provides new insights into Steven's poetry and life, and new perspectives on the nature of language and poetic voice, the social and cultural shaping of American poetry and the viability of current critical debates. |
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... Milton in identifying the femi- nine with the devalued.8 Stevens , however , revises not only Milton , but the high romantic revision of Milton . He thus occupies the space of an excluded middle : the relation of the tropological to the ...
... Milton in identifying the femi- nine with the devalued.8 Stevens , however , revises not only Milton , but the high romantic revision of Milton . He thus occupies the space of an excluded middle : the relation of the tropological to the ...
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... Milton's own theology the Son clearly is not . Scripture ascribes to the Son " the name and attributes and works of God , as well as divine honours , " but for Milton , or at least the Milton of The Christian Doctrine , these are ...
... Milton's own theology the Son clearly is not . Scripture ascribes to the Son " the name and attributes and works of God , as well as divine honours , " but for Milton , or at least the Milton of The Christian Doctrine , these are ...
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... Milton than of Satan - a reality " greater than ” fallen discourse remains the object of Milton's poetic . In Satan's address to the Son / sun , the greater reality , the Messiah , is elided : As if reverting to the " idolatrous ...
... Milton than of Satan - a reality " greater than ” fallen discourse remains the object of Milton's poetic . In Satan's address to the Son / sun , the greater reality , the Messiah , is elided : As if reverting to the " idolatrous ...
Contents
Sister of the Minotaur | 3 |
Stevens and the Mythology of Gender | 23 |
A Woman with the Hair | 46 |
Copyright | |
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