Wallace Stevens: An Anatomy of Figuration Contributor(s): Nassar, Eugene Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812273338 ISBN-13: 9780812273335 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1965 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Language Arts & Disciplines |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 232 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book presents for the first time a thorough study of the imagery in Wallace Stevens's poetry and the patterns which these images form. Heretofore, most discussions of Stevens's work presupposed an understanding of the difficult and bizarre surface imagery and dealt mainly with broad generalizations which often left the student of Stevens's poems unsatisfied. The brilliant surface of the poems, the detailed imagery of specific passages, is here examined clearly and systematically. The images, indexed at the back of the book, are examined in four natural groups: Figures of the Mind, of Disorder, of Order, and of Change. The last half of the book is concerned with close analyses of some longer poems of Stevens's using the information gleaned from the anatomy of the first half. |