Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy

ISBN-13: 9781108491778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 204 str.

Gul Bilge Han

Opis

Provides a new perspective on Wallace Stevens' poetry and the significant notion of modernist autonomy. Appeals not only to experts and junior scholars who want to gain a deeper understanding of Stevens' work, but also to those interested in new critical interventions in modernist studies, American literature, and aesthetic theory.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The politics of aesthetic separation: no private paradise; 2. Spaces of autonomy: relational place-making; 3. Community and autonomy: 'the mode of common dreams'; 4. Autonomy and philosophy: 'reason's constant ruin'; Coda.