Wallace Stevens : An Anatomy of Figuration / Eugene Paul Nassar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nassar, Eugene Paul, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Literary style.

Stevens, Wallace.

Figures of speech.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1965]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

PART ONE. An Anatomy of Specific Figures

Chapter One. The Two Minds of Wallace Stevens

Chapter Two. Figures of the Mind (Reason and the Imagination)

Chapter Four. Figures of Order

Chapter Five. Figures of Change

PART TWO. Structural Figuration

Chapter Six. Double Vision in Whole Poems

Chapter Seven. Peter Quince at the Clavier

Chapter Eight. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle

Chapter Nine. The Comedian as the Letter C

Chapter Ten. Credences of Summer

Chapter Eleven. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

Index to Figures

Index of Poems Cited

A Selective Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

9781512818215

1512818216

OCLC:

1013963729