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Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction - Hardcover

Ragg, Edward

 
9780521190862: Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 052119086X ISBN 13: 9780521190862
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Edward Ragg's study is the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg's detailed close-readings highlight the poet's absorption of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century painting, as well as the examples of philosophers and other poets' work. Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction will appeal to those studying Stevens as well as anyone interested in the relations between poetry and painting. This valuable study embraces revealing philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens' place within and resistance to Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, representation and ‘the imagination'.

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About the Author

Edward Ragg is Associate Professor of English at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a poet, wine writer and co-editor of Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic (2008).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052119086X
ISBN 13 
9780521190862
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
262