Download Late Stevens: The Final Fiction by B. J. Leggett PDF
By B. J. Leggett
“If one now not believes in God (as truth),” Wallace Stevens as soon as wrote, “it isn't really attainable purely to disbelieve; it turns into essential to think in anything else. . . . I say that one's ultimate trust has to be in a fiction.” Stevens addressed the concept that of a "supreme fiction" all through a lot of his profession, yet many critics suppose that his poems by no means discovered that idea past a theoretical threat. B. J. Leggett argues that Stevens did certainly in attaining the preferrred fiction in his usually neglected past due poems. To percentage within the poet's imaginative and prescient, even though, Leggett unearths that readers needs to comprehend the creative intertext that runs via this culminating physique of work.
After 3 volumes of inauspicious and summary poetry, Stevens within the final 5 years of his existence reverted to a mode that's refreshingly own and obtainable. Leggett supplies shut exam to The Rock, that is the remaining portion of Stevens's accrued Poems, and to the uncollected poems released as Opus Posthumous, delivering readers with the motifs, conventions, texts, and fictions—or intertext—on which those works' value relies. He finally indicates that there's a form of grasp narrative in Stevens's overdue poems, one who isn't really regularly explicitly current yet that's in keeping with the preferrred fiction. it really is the following that Stevens supplies shape to his belief.
Leggett lines the improvement of this fiction and demonstrates how wisdom of its presence dramatically adjustments the interpreting of key poems. His dialogue of Schopenhauer's effect on Stevens, including wealthy analyses of significant poems, demanding situations to standard interpretations, and hypothesis at the course Stevens's poetry may need taken had he lived longer, all make for provocative analyzing. past due Stevens is a booklet for a person who suggestion they knew this poet.
Read Online or Download Late Stevens: The Final Fiction PDF
Similar literary criticism & theory_1 books
Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)
Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the unconventional encompasses a sequence of fable sequences that culminate in a scene seriously indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel was once released a yr sooner than James Thurber’s better-known brief tale, “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty”).
Modernity and the English Rural Novel
This publication examines the patience of the agricultural culture within the English novel into the 20th century. within the shadow of metropolitan literary tradition, rural writing can appear to try for a fable model of britain without compelling social or old relevance. Dominic Head argues that the plain disconnection is, in itself, a reaction to modernity instead of a refusal to have interaction with it, and that the $64000 writers during this culture have had an important concerning the trajectory of English cultural existence in the course of the 20th century.
The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience
Unearths the awesome parallels among indigenous cultures of the Americas and the traditional Homeric global in addition to Tolkien’s heart Earth • Explores the shamanic use of therapeutic songs, psychoactive crops, and imaginative and prescient quests on the center of the Odyssey and the fable works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered realization, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all strategies important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal attention Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy usually are not international to the West.
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 3: Reader’s Guide PART 2
Quantity 2 of the main complete in-depth significant other to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity features a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, providing the main exact biographical list on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and consultant is a complete instruction manual to at least one of the most well-liked authors of the 20 th century.
- Revolutionary Damnation: Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright (Irish Studies)
- Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain
- Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi (European Crime Fictions)
- Postmodern/Postwar and After: Rethinking American Literature (New American Canon)
- Rupert Thomson: Critical Essays (Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Book 5)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene
Extra resources for Late Stevens: The Final Fiction
Sample text