Notations of the wild : ecology in the poetry of Wallace Stevens / Gyorgyi Voros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voros, Gyorgyi, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilderness areas in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Nature in literature.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Knowledge--Natural history.

Stevens, Wallace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

n the summer of 1903, just before he turned twenty-four, Wallace Stevens joined a six-week hunting expedition to the wilderness of British Columbia. The adventure profoundly influenced his conceptions of language and silence, his symbolic geography, and his sensibilities toward wild nature as nonhuman "other." The rugged western mountains came to represent that promontory of experience-"green's green apogee"-against which Stevens would measure the reality of all his later perceptions and conceptions and by which he would judge the purpose and value of works of the human imagination. Notations

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations; Stevens's Earthy Anecdote; 1. ""A Nature to Its Natives All""; 2. ""The Westwardness of Everything""; 3. ""Notations of the Wild""; 4. A House Built by and for the Body; 5. ""The Genius of the Body, Which Is Our World""; 6. The Impersonal Person; Notes; Works Cited; Index of Works by Wallace Stevens; Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-190) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781587292453

1587292459

OCLC:

44954283