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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... imagination of the son still bearing the antique imagination of the father " ( NA , 52-53 ; italics added ) . The essentially androgynous character of this figure ( inasmuch as the “ sister ” is also the " son " ) , together with the ...
... imagination of the son still bearing the antique imagination of the father " ( NA , 52-53 ; italics added ) . The essentially androgynous character of this figure ( inasmuch as the “ sister ” is also the " son " ) , together with the ...
Page 134
... imagination . Stevens is honoring the life of a philosopher who he believed lived wholly within the imagination and wholly within the natural world : “ With every visible thing enlarged and yet / No more than a bed , a chair and moving ...
... imagination . Stevens is honoring the life of a philosopher who he believed lived wholly within the imagination and wholly within the natural world : “ With every visible thing enlarged and yet / No more than a bed , a chair and moving ...
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... Imagination implies en- ergy and imagination of the finest type involves an energy which results in order ' as the motion of a snake's body goes through all parts at once , and its volition acts at the same instant in coils that go ...
... Imagination implies en- ergy and imagination of the finest type involves an energy which results in order ' as the motion of a snake's body goes through all parts at once , and its volition acts at the same instant in coils that go ...
Contents
Sister of the Minotaur | 3 |
Stevens and the Mythology of Gender | 23 |
A Woman with the Hair | 46 |
Copyright | |
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