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Title
Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger : poetry as appropriative proximity / Ian Tan.
ISBN
9783030992491 (electronic bk.)
3030992497 (electronic bk.)
9783030992484
3030992489
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-99249-1 doi
Call Number
PS3537.T4753
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.52
Summary
This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevenss poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a philosophical reading of Stevens, it uses Heideggers theories as a framework through which Stevenss poetry can be read and shows how philosophy and literature can enter into a productive dialogue. It also makes a case for a Heideggerian reading of poetry, exploring his later philosophy with respect to his writing on art, language, and poetry. Taking Stevenss repeated emphasis on the terms "being," "consciousness," "reality," and "truth" as its starting point, the book provides a new reading of Stevens with a philosopher who aligns poetic insight with a reconceptualization of the metaphysical significance of these concepts. It pursues the link between philosophy, American poetry as reflected through Stevens, and modernist poetics, looking from Stevenss modernist techniques to broader European philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Ian Tan is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His key areas of research are the intersections of literature, philosophy and film with special emphasis on literary theory, modernist poetry and contemporary fiction. He has published work on authors such as James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Ian McEwan, John Banville and Graham Swift.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 5, 2022).
Series
American literature readings in the 21st century.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030992484
1 Introduction: Language as "Quasi"-Transcendental PresencePhenomenology and Poetry
2 Not ours although we understood: The Language of Stevens and Heidegger
3 The Neighbouring of Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking from/with the Event of Ereignis
4 Considering Presence and Place in Stevens Harmonium
5 Ideology, Politics and Life in the Polis for Heidegger, Stevens and American Poetry in the 1930s
6 Stevens Supreme Fiction and the Location of Truth as/in Philosophy
7 To See Things as They Finally Are: The Question of Being in the Late Poetry
8.Conclusion: The Task of the Heideggerian Critic and the Adventure of Poetrys Being.
