Wallace Stevens Across the Atlantic (Hardcover, 1st)

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface; F.Kermode Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That; B.Eeckhout& E.Ragg PART 1: DESCRIPTIONS WITHOUT PLACE: IDEAS OF EUROPE IN STEVENS 'The Switzerland of the Mind': Stevens' Invention of Europe; G.Lensing Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark); J.Hillis Miller Stevens' Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur; R.Rehder PART 2: BEYOND STATEN ISLAND: STEVENS IN TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy; C.Altieri 'Without human meaning': Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry; K.Ziarek Early Christianity in Late Stevens; J.Quinn 'The strange unlike': Stevens' Poetics of Resemblance; J.Cohen Stevens, Duchamp and the American 'Ism', 1915-1919; D.Haglund Picasso, Cezanne and Stevens' Abstract Engagements; E.Ragg Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Valery; L.Goldfarb PART 3: GETTING IT STRAIGHT AT THE SORBONNE? STEVENS' AFTERLIFE IN EUROPE Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press; M.Ford A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson; G.Reeves A Poetics of Ignorance: Antonio Ramos Rosa and Stevens; I.Ramalho Santos Reading Stevens in Italian; M.Bacigalupo Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun; H.Kos Index