Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger Poetry as Appropriative Proximity

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a philosophical reading of Stevens, it uses Heidegge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Ian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Language as “Quasi”-Transcendental Presence—Phenomenology 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 Poetry’s Being