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  • The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous experience, and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The New Wallace Stevens Studies

    Edited by Bart Eeckhout, Gül Bilge Han ...
    Series series Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
    The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens

    As the figure of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) becomes so entrenched in the Modernist canon that he serves as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. The ambiguity of the preposition is intentional: while after may refer neutrally to chronological sequence, it also implies ways of aesthetically modeling poetry on a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Wallace Stevens, Poetry, and France

    "Au pays de la métaphore"

    Series series Actes de la recherche à l’ENS
    Wallace Stevens, Poetry, and France offers the first book-length study of the various effects–poetic or prosaic, serious or comic, strange or familiar–produced by the deployment of French languages and cultures in Stevens’ poetry. Prominent Stevens scholars reexamine here a number of key issues, from angles as diverse as translation studies, aesthetics, linguistics, comparative literature, French ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism

    Edited by Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are reflected and explored across an ever increasing range of media outlets. This collection zooms in on a number of facets of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    by Bill Brown ...
    From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

    Edited by John N. Serio ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Game Changed

    Essays and Other Prose

    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Praise for Lawrence Joseph:"Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness… Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry."---John Ashbery"Like Henry Adams, Joseph seems to be writing ahead of actual events, and that makes him one of the scariest writers I know."---David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review"The most important lawyer-poet of our era."- ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Orpheus in the Bronx

    Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

    Series series Poets On Poetry
    "Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."---James LongenbachA highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classicist ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Close Listening

    Poetry and the Performed Word

    Edited by Charles Bernstein ...
    Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Wallace Stevens in Context

    Edited by Glen MacLeod ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    This book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the great twentieth-century American poets. In thirty-six short essays, an international team of distinguished scholars have created a comprehensive overview of Stevens' life and the world of his poetry. Individual chapters relate Stevens to important ... Read more

    $109.99 USD