Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That

   1. Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That

      • Bart Eeckhout, Edward Ragg

      Pages 1-10

3. Descriptions without Place: Ideas of Europe in Stevens

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. ‘The Switzerland of the Mind’: Stevens’ Invention of Europe

      • George Lensing

      Pages 13-22

   3. Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark)

      • J. Hillis Miller

      Pages 23-40

   4. Stevens’ Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur

      • Robert Rehder

      Pages 41-57

4. Beyond Staten Island: Stevens in Transatlantic Conversation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Philosophical Conversations

      1. Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy

         • Charles Altieri

         Pages 61-78

      2. ‘Without human meaning’: Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry

         • Krzysztof Ziarek

         Pages 79-94

      3. Early Christianity in Late Stevens

         • Justin Quinn

         Pages 95-106

      4. ‘The strange unlike’: Stevens’ Poetics of Resemblance

         • Josh Cohen

         Pages 107-118

   3. Artistic Conversations

      1. Stevens, Duchamp and the American ‘ism’, 1915–1919

         • David Haglund

         Pages 121-132

      2. Picasso, Cézanne and Stevens’ Abstract Engagements

         • Edward Ragg

         Pages 133-150

      3. Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Valéry

         • Lisa Goldfarb

         Pages 151-162

5. Getting It Straight at the Sorbonne? Stevens’ Afterlife in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press

      • Mark Ford

      Pages 165-185

   3. A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson

      • Gareth Reeves

      Pages 186-203

   4. A Poetics of Ignorance: António Ramos Rosa and Wallace Stevens

      • Irene Ramalho Santos

      Pages 204-215

   5. Reading Stevens in Italian

      • Massimo Bacigalupo

      Pages 216-229

6. Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun

   1. Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun

      • Helga Kos

      Pages 231-236

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.

• America
• crisis
• ode
• poet
• poetics
• poetry

'Stevens would have approved of this refreshingly creative form of commentary' - Jeannie Vanasco, Times Literary Supplement

'Re-affirming the complexity of a Stevens who resists poetic or national definition as either fully within the American grain or within the European one, Wallace Stevens Across the Atlantic will equally appeal to Stevens experts, scholars of American Modernism, and comparative literature specialists. Moreover, in an academic world whose growing suspicion of the European centre has sometimes led to a sharp rejection of the European tradition altogether, this volume is also a salutary reminder of the interpretive riches to be gained from a refusal of any easy amalgamation between "Europhilia" and "Eurocentrism"'. - English Studies

• University of Antwerp, Belgium

  Bart Eeckhout

• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  Edward Ragg

CHARLES ALTIERI is Stageberg Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley, USA. MASSIMO BACIGALUPO is Professor of American Literature at University of Genoa, Italy, and President of the Italian Association of American Studies. JOSH COHEN is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. MARK FORD is Professor of English at University College London, UK. LISA GOLDFARB is on the faculty of New York University's Gallatin School, USA. DAVID HAGLUND is completing a DPhil on Stevens at Balliol College, Oxford University, UK. FRANK KERMODE is the author/editor of some forty volumes and one of the most distinguished critics of our time. HELGA KOS is a visual artist from Amsterdam. GEORGE LENSING is Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of English at University of North Carolina, USA. J. HILLIS MILLER is Research Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA and was formerly president of the Modern Language Association of America. JUSTIN QUINN is Associate Professor at the Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic. IRENE RAMALHO SANTOS is Professor of English and American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and International Affiliate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. GARETH REEVES is Reader in English at University of Durham, UK. ROBERT REHDER is Chair of English and American Literature, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK is Professor of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, USA.

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