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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... ( woman ) , the phi- losopher must be the woman ( truth ) which is impossible ; and man and woman change places , exchange their masks to infinity " in order to recover truth from which man's nature excludes her . This philosophical ...
... ( woman ) , the phi- losopher must be the woman ( truth ) which is impossible ; and man and woman change places , exchange their masks to infinity " in order to recover truth from which man's nature excludes her . This philosophical ...
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... woman looked and from her window named The corals of the dogwood , cold and clear , Cold , coldly delineating , being real , Clear and , except for the eye , without intrusion . ( CP , 399-400 ) Emerson allegedly sees flowers wholly as ...
... woman looked and from her window named The corals of the dogwood , cold and clear , Cold , coldly delineating , being real , Clear and , except for the eye , without intrusion . ( CP , 399-400 ) Emerson allegedly sees flowers wholly as ...
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... Woman Won , the Woman Lost , " Essays in Literature 48 ( Spring 1981 ) : 231–55 . 5. This phrase is taken from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar , Mad- woman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth - Century Imagination ( New ...
... Woman Won , the Woman Lost , " Essays in Literature 48 ( Spring 1981 ) : 231–55 . 5. This phrase is taken from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar , Mad- woman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth - Century Imagination ( New ...
Contents
Sister of the Minotaur | 3 |
Stevens and the Mythology of Gender | 23 |
A Woman with the Hair | 46 |
Copyright | |
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