TY - BOOK ID - 1161234 TI - Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens PY - 2014 SN - 0691067473 1306986559 069160763X 0691636192 1400859662 9781400859665 9780691607634 9780691067476 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - Stevens, Wallace KW - Jeux de mots KW - Mots d'esprits et jeux de mots KW - Play on words KW - Woordspelingen KW - English language KW - Style KW - Semantics KW - Literary style KW - Play of words KW - Plays on words KW - Word play KW - Wordplay KW - Plays on words. KW - Stevens, Wallace, KW - Literary style. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Wit and humor KW - Style. KW - Semantics. KW - Germanic languages KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - English language - United States - Style KW - English language - United States - Semantics KW - Stevens, Wallace - Literary style UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1161234 AB - In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to his latest work, and includes close readings of three of his remarkable long poems--Esthetique du Mal, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, and An Ordinary Evening in New Haven. The chronological arrangement enables readers to follow Stevens's increasing skill and changing thought in three areas of his "poetry of the earth": the poetry of place, the poetry of eros, and the poetry of belief.Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens shows how, in setting words at play and in conflict, Stevens could upset the usual relations of rhetoric, grammar, and dialectic, and thus the book contributes to the current debate about logical and a-logical uses of language. Cook also places Stevens within the larger context of Western literature, hearing how he speaks to Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth; to such American forebears as Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson; and to T. S. Eliot, his contemporary.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -