Wallace Stevens' Experimental Language
Published on 25. November 1999
Book
Hardback
269 pages
978-0-333-76516-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work uses an innovative rhetorical and philosophical approach to examine Wallace Stevens' linguistic exploration. The author studies in detail both well known and neglected, more cryptic poems, in which Stevens plays with the disruptive development of metaphor, the ostentatious positioning of prepositions and prefixes, and the ruthless use of copular verbs. She argues that these strategies allow Stevens' more radical poems to lay bare the artifice of the English language.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-76516-6 (9780333765166)
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Person
BEVERLY MAEDER is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Content
Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Sources Introduction PART I: PROLOGUE: METAPHORICAL MOVES Poems of Againstness, Wormy Metaphors, and Beyond World and Word au pays de la metaphore Part II: Artifice and Ontology The Material of 'Being' Being and Speculation in Poems PART III: TOWARDS A NEW RELATION WITH TIME ('THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR') Space and Contemporary Chaos as/in Metaphor on the Blue Guitar Experiments with Momentum on the Blue Guitar Conclusion Speculation and Human Time Notes Bibliography Index