The New Wallace Stevens Studies

This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.

Bart Eeckhout (Edited by), Gül Bilge Han (Edited by)

9781108833295, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 July 2021

300 pages
24 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second section applies recent methodological and theoretical advances that have left a prominent mark on literary studies - from world literature and ecocriticism to urban studies, queer studies, intersectional thinking, and cognitive literary studies. Essays in the third section reassess issues that have long inspired critics. Here investigations include Stevens's reception by later poets, his attitude toward modern fiction, different modes of his poetic thinking, aspects of his rhetoric and style, and his lyrical ethics. This volume captures a cross-section of the most striking recent developments in Stevens criticism.

Introduction: that which is always beginning Bart Eeckhout and Gül Bilge Han
Part I. Emerging Concepts in Stevens Criticism: 1. Imperialism and colonialism Lisa Siraganian
2. The politics of utopia Douglas Mao
3. Community and audience Christopher Spaide
4. Secularism Matthew Mutter
5. Transnationalism Gül Bilge Han
Part II. Recent Critical Methods Applied to Stevens: 6. World literature Lee M. Jenkins
7. Ecological poetics Cary Wolfe
8. Urban studies Julia E. Daniel
9. Queer studies Bart Eeckhout
10. Intersectional studies Lisa M. Steinman
11. Cognitive literary studies G. Gabrielle Starr
Part III. Revisionary Readings of Stevens: 12. Poetic responses Andrew Epstein
13. Poetic fiction Lisa Goldfarb
 14. Poetic thinking Charles Altieri
15. Constructive disorderings Tom Eyers
16. Manner and manners Zachary Finch
17. Lyrical ethics Johanna Skibsrud.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Poetry [DC], Literature & literary studies [D]