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...

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Other Authors: Eeckhout, Bart, 1964- (Editor), Goldfarb, Lisa (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
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  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: After Stevens
  • Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium) & Lisa Goldfarb (New York University, USA)
  • 2. Frost or Stevens? Servants of Two Masters
  • Bonnie Costello (Boston University, USA)
  • 3. The Strands of Modernism: Stevens beside the Seaside
  • Lee M. Jenkins (University College Cork, Ireland)
  • 4. Hearing Stevens in Sylvia Plath
  • Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • 5. Moving the "Moo" from Stevensian Blank Verse: Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Prose
  • Angus Cleghorn (Seneca College, Canada)
  • 6. Henri Michaux's Elsewhere through the Lens of Stevens' Poetic Theory
  • Axel Nesme (University of Lyon, France)
  • 7. Stevens across the Iron Curtain
  • Justin Quinn (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
  • 8. Stevens and Seamus Heaney
  • George S. Lensing (University of North Carolina, USA)
  • 9. The Not So Noble Rider: Stevens, Oppen, Glück
  • Edward Ragg (Tsinghua University, China)
  • 10. The Stevens Wars
  • Al Filreis (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • 11. Stevens' Musical Legacy: "The Huge, High Harmony"
  • Lisa Goldfarb (Gallatin School, New York University, USA)
  • 12. "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": Stevens, Susan Howe, and the Souls of the Labadie Tract
  • Joan Richardson (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
  • 13. How John Ashbery Modified Stevens' Uses of "As"
  • Charles Altieri (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • 14. Silly to Be Serious: Lateness and the Question of Late Style in Stevens and A.R. Ammons
  • Juliette Utard (University of Paris-Sorbonne, France)
  • 15. Unanticipated Readers
  • Lisa M. Steinman (Reed College, USA)
  • 16. "This Song Is for My Foe": Olive Senior and Terrance Hayes Rewrite Stevens
  • Rachel Galvin (University of Chicago, USA)
  • 17. "The California Fruit of the Ideal": Stevens and Robert Hass
  • Rachel Malkin (University of Oxford, UK) Notes on Contributors
  • Index.