| The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry Reprint 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Grey, Thomas C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674284011 ISBN-13: 9780674284012 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Law - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.91 lbs) 155 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. In this important extension of the recent law-and-literature movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet and implicitly a pragmatist legal theorist, who illustrates how human thought proceeds through "assertion, qualification, and qualified reassertion," and how reason and passion fuse together in the act of interpretation. |