The New Wallace Stevens Studies

Description

The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second section applies recent methodological and theoretical advances that have left a prominent mark on literary studies - from world literature and ecocriticism to urban studies, queer studies, intersectional thinking, and cognitive literary studies. Essays in the third section reassess issues that have long inspired critics. Here investigations include Stevens's reception by later poets, his attitude toward modern fiction, different modes of his poetic thinking, aspects of his rhetoric and style, and his lyrical ethics. This volume captures a cross-section of the most striking recent developments in Stevens criticism.

Bart Eeckhout is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp. He has edited The Wallace Stevens Journal since 2011 and authored Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002). His edited books include Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic (2008), Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (2012), and Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens (2017). Gul Bilge Han is a lecturer at the Department of English, Malardalen University. Her research lies at the intersection of modernist studies, world literature, aesthetic theory, and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy (Cambridge, 2019) and several essays on modernist aesthetics and poetry.