Wallace Stevens and the aesthetics of abstraction

Wallace Stevens and the aesthetics of abstraction /

"Edward Ragg's study re-considers the role of abstraction in the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg�...

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Main Author: Ragg, Edward, 1976-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955 > Aesthetics.
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955.
Stevens, Wallace > 1879-1955
Stevens, Wallace > Ästhetik und Poetik.
Stevens, Wallace.
Abstraction in literature.
Art and literature.
Abstraction dans la littérature.
Art et littérature.
Aesthetics.
Poetik
Abstraktion
Lyrik
Abstractie.
Abstracte kunst.
Gedichten.
Amerikaans.
Amerikansk poesi.
Litteraturestetik.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Stevensian' and the question of abstraction 1935-2009
  • The abstract impulse : from anecdote to 'new romantic' in Harmonium (1923) and Ideas of Order (1935)
  • The turn to abstraction : Owl's Clover (1936) and the 'un-locatable' speaker in The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937)
  • The 'in-visible' abstract : Stevens' idealism from Coleridge to Merleau-Ponty
  • Abstract figures : the curious case of the idealist 'I'
  • Abstract appetites : food, wine and the idealist 'I'
  • The pure good of theory : a new abstract emphasis
  • Bourgeois abstraction : poetry, painting and the idea of mastery in late Stevens.

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