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The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major peri



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*List of Illustrations, pg. xi*Abbreviations and Cue Titles, pg. xiii*Preface, pg. xv*Acknowledgments, pg. xxi*Chapter 1. Playing Checkers under the Maginot Line, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Formalists under Fire, pg. 29*Chapter 3. Description without a Sense of Place, pg. 151*Chapter 4. Cuba Should Be Full of Cuban Things, pg. 187*Chapter 5. The Postcard Imagination, pg. 207*Chapter 6. Last American Occasions, pg. 242*Notes, pg. 279*Index, pg. 351

Wallace Stevens and the Actual World

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691603766, 978-0691603766
      ISBN10: 0691603766

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major peri



      Trade Review
      One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992

      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*List of Illustrations, pg. xi*Abbreviations and Cue Titles, pg. xiii*Preface, pg. xv*Acknowledgments, pg. xxi*Chapter 1. Playing Checkers under the Maginot Line, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Formalists under Fire, pg. 29*Chapter 3. Description without a Sense of Place, pg. 151*Chapter 4. Cuba Should Be Full of Cuban Things, pg. 187*Chapter 5. The Postcard Imagination, pg. 207*Chapter 6. Last American Occasions, pg. 242*Notes, pg. 279*Index, pg. 351

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