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Subject(s)

• Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Experimental poetry, American—History and criticism [Browse]
• Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955—Language [Browse]

Summary note

• "In Wallace Stevens' Experimental Language, Beverly Maeder uses an innovative rhetorical and philosophical approach to examine Stevens' linguistic exploration. She studies in detail both well-known poems and neglected, more cryptic works, in which Stevens plays with the disruptive development of metaphor, the ostentatious positioning of prepositions and prefixes, and the ruthless use of copular verbs.
• Maeder argues that these strategies allow Stevens' more radical poems to heighten the self-consciousness of language and test the limits of its non-ontological potential. By insisting on making and unmaking the ongoing patterns of language, such poems belie the temporal and perishable nature of both text and poet-persona."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Wormy Metaphors and Poems of Againstness
• 2. World and Word au pays de la metaphore
• 3. The Material of "Being"
• 4. "Being" and a Place for Speculation
• 5. "Contemporaneous" Language in "The Man with the Blue Guitar"
• 6. Experiments with Momentum on the Blue Guitar
• Epilogue: The Transitoriness of the Word-World.

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ISBN

0312213344

LCCN

99012847

OCLC

40783823

RCP

C - S

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