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Author | : Kellie Wells |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1573661708 |
Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love. In Kingdom Come, Kansas, a town from which children once mysteriously disappeared, there lives a giant woman. Wallis Armstrong is not a pituitary mutant or a person battling a rare medical condition; she’s just an improbably large woman ill at ease in a world built for shrimps. Paradoxically, Wallis builds miniatures of crime scenes, and her specialty is staged suicides. She constructed her first diorama as a child when a boy in her fourth-grade class went suddenly missing. Wallis’s brother, Obie, believes the only explanation for his sister’s amplitude is that she is the incarnation of God on Earth, and he is her one true ardent disciple. Until he too disappears. Kellie Wells’s story of Wallis’s odyssey through this tight-fitting world is a churlish meditation on the existence and nature of God as well as an exploration of the treachery of childhood and the destructive nature of the most blindly abiding kind of love: that of a love-struck brother for a big sister, a disciple for an unwilling prophet, and a bone-weary god for a savage and disappointing flock.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801491856 |
Offers authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences, exploring their relationship to one another and to the works of Stevens' precursors.
Author | : Frank Doggett |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421434857 |
Originally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of the self, and the imagination, among other topics. The concepts that emerge from long reading of the poetry of Stevens are slight and basic, but these concepts do accord, even if they never emerge into a coherent philosophy. The accordance is probably a result of Stevens' preference for naturalistic thought.
Author | : Thomas Gould |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1837644888 |
The modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract medium through which to think about and theorize not only philosophical concepts like metaphor and reality, but also a unifying thesis about the nature of poetry itself. At the same time, literary theorists and philosophers have often turned to Stevens as a canonical reference point and influence. In the centenary year of Wallace Stevens’s first collection Harmonium (1923), this collection asks what it means to theorize with Stevens today. Through a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this book seeks to describe the myriad kinds of thinking sponsored by Stevens’s poetry and explores how contemporary literary theory might be invigorated through readings of Stevens.
Author | : Robin G. Schulze |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472105786 |
Traces the ways in which two important poets shaped and reshaped each other's work
Author | : Harold Kaplan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351499394 |
A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially humanist and democratic social and aesthetic ethos. In Poetry, Politics, and Culture, Harold Kaplan offers a penetrating comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets.All four poets wrote in an atmosphere of cultural crisis following World War I, caught as they were between outmoded belief systems and various forms of artistic and political nihilism. While each believed in poetry as a source of cultural values and beliefs, they nevertheless experienced loss of confidence in their own vocation in a world characterized by scientific, rationalist thinking and the mundane struggle for survival. For each, therefore, the poetic imagination was a means of restoring order, or building a new civilization out of chaos. In trying to define a revitalized culture, the four exemplified the perennial quarrel between Europe and America.
Author | : Lucy Beckett |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1974-04-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521202787 |
This detailed critical study of Wallace Stevens identifies the major concerns of his poetry. Lucy Beckett presents Stevens as a contemplative poet, engaged on a long enquiry into the nature of the relationship between the creative imagination and the world it illuminates and recreates.
Author | : James Baird |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421436981 |
Originally published in 1968. In The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, James Baird traces the process of Wallace Steven's Grand Poem and the total structure that it accomplished in language. In the words of Professor Baird, "The full art of Stevens is organized with architectural precision. The shape of the mind becomes a building, the framework of which is founded in a willed symmetry of design." In The Dome and the Rock, James Baird exposes the capacity of Wallace Stevens to design his poetry in a manner similar to an architect, and he "reveals the craftsmanship of [Wallace's] acts as builder."
Author | : Stephen Sicari |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-03-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1638040257 |
“Religion” has become suspect in literary studies, often for good reason, as it has become associated with reactionary politics and outdated codified beliefs. In Modernist Reformations: Poetry as Theology in Eliot, Stevens, and Joyce, the author demonstrates how three high modernist writers work to reform religious experience for an age dominated by the extremes of radical skepticism and dogmatic rigidity. The author offers new and provocative readings of these well-studied writers: Joyce and Stevens are usually considered purely secular, and the Eliot in this book is more progressive than reactionary. The readings here provide a fresh approach to their work and to the period. Using studies of religious experience by sociologists and theologians both from the modernist era and from our own contemporary world to frame the argument, the author examines the poetry closely and in detail to demonstrate that the work of these writers does not merely reflect religious themes and issues but does the actual work usually considered theological. Their poetry is theology. Modernist Reformations will renew and deepen appreciation for these writers, and perhaps their efforts at reformation may allow for our own engagement with religion in a secular age.
Author | : Richard Fleming |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780838751275 |
Each essay in this collection focuses on an individual classical American author--Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Moore, and Stevens--and the author's primary works. Traditional interpretations are reassessed based on close study of source texts and criticism.