Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

A Tune beyond Us, Yet Ourselves

• Author(s): D. Schwarz,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 242
• ISBN_10: 0230374409
  ISBN_13: 9780230374409
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... In this study Daniel R. Schwarz argues that the narrative and representational aspects of Stevens's poetry have been neglected in favour of readings that stress his word play and rhetoricity. Schwarz shows how Stevens's concept of representation is deeply influenced by modern painters such as Picasso and Duchamp. He shows that Stevens's poetry needs to be understood in terms of a number of major contexts: the American tradition of Emerson and Whitman, the Romantic movement, and the Modernist tradition.