The Poet Figure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens: Disentangling the Multiplicity of Selves

by Frusciante, Denise Marie

• ISBN13: 9780773449923
• ISBN10: 0773449922
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-09
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

Using a Jungian methodology, this \vork analyzes the creation of imaginative selves (poet, poet figure, speakers, readers) in the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

Author Biography

Denise Marie Frusciante is presently visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lynn University, Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Pysche's Entryway into His "World of the Imagination": An Approach to Wallace Stevens

Re-Mythologizing the Poet Figure: Wallace Stevens Poetry as Psychic Infection

Puer, Senex, and the Monkey in the Middle: Clothing the Poet-in-the-Bones

Traversing the Inner Landscapes of the Mind: The Mythic Journey in Walt Whitman's "The Sleepers" and Wallace Stevens's "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery"

The Poetics of Hesitancy: Liminally Erecting Soul, Self, and Imagination in Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, and Stevens

Dying to Be Reborn: The Transformation Drive in William Carlos Williams's "Spring and All," Wallace Stevens's "Metamorphosis," and Thomas Pynchon's "The Aqyn's Song"

Conclusion: "Penetrating Again Toward the Less Apparent"

Bibliography

Index

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