Wallace Stevens, New York, and modernism / / edited by Lisa Goldfarb and Bart Eeckhout

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.52; B
• Soggetto topico: Poets, American - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century; New York (N.Y.) In literature
• Classificazione: LIT004020LIT014000LIT000000
• Altri autori: EeckhoutBart <1964-> GoldfarbLisa
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Back at the Waldorf?; 1. Stevens and New York The Long Gestation; 2. "My Head Full of Strange Pictures" Stevens in the New York Galleries; 3. "The Whispering of Innumerable Responsive Spirits" Stevens' New York Music; 4. Stevens Dancing "Something Light, Winged, Holy"; 5. The Invisible Skyscraper Stevens and Urban Architecture; 6. On Stevensian Transitoriness; 7. Stevens and Henry James The New York Connection ; 8. "Unless New York Is Cocos" Stevens, New York, and the Discourse of Disappointment9. Bourgeois Abstraction Gastronomy, Painting, Poetry, and the Allure of New York in Early to Late Stevens; Coda Wallace Stevens of the New York School; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that mattered to him privately and poetically: visits to galleries and museums, theatrical and musical performances, intellectual and artistic gatherings, shopping sprees and gastronomical indulgences. Recent criticism of the poet has sought to understand how Stevens interacted with the literary, artistic, and cultural forces of his time to forge his inimitable aesthetic, with its peculiar mix of post-romantic responses to nature and a metropolitan cosmopolitanism. This volume deepens our understanding of the multiple ways in which New York and its various aesthetic attractions figured in Stevens' life, both at a biographical and poetic level"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Wallace Stevens, New York, and modernism
• ISBN: 1-283-71217-2; 0-203-12193-7; 1-136-33046-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818655603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature