| The Decomposer's Art: Ideas of Music in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens Contributor(s): Paolini, Shirley (Editor), Holmes, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820410004 ISBN-13: 9780820410005 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $53.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Music |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 88-23657 |
| Series: Alaska Pacific Studies in Interdisciplinary; 1 24: Theatre A |
| Physical Information: 177 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This comprehensive study of the ideas of music in Wallace Stevens' poetry -rereads- Stevens as a poet whose compositional strategies assimilate musical forms and performative programs. The -decomposer- is the poet of qualification, who constantly explores the validity of -developing variation- as the best means for creating art not limited by system or medium. As both subject and strategy for poetry, music becomes Stevens' most frequently used figure connecting his art to the rhythms of modern life. Thus, to disregard Stevens' ideas of music is to misread the text." |