Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230535844 ISBN 13: 9780230535848

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.

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CHARLES ALTIERI is Stageberg Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley, USA. MASSIMO BACIGALUPO is Professor of American Literature at University of Genoa, Italy, and President of the Italian Association of American Studies. JOSH COHEN is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. MARK FORD is Professor of English at University College London, UK. LISA GOLDFARB is on the faculty of New York University's Gallatin School, USA. DAVID HAGLUND is completing a DPhil on Stevens at Balliol College, Oxford University, UK. FRANK KERMODE is the author/editor of some forty volumes and one of the most distinguished critics of our time. HELGA KOS is a visual artist from Amsterdam. GEORGE LENSING is Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of English at University of North Carolina, USA. J. HILLIS MILLER is Research Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA and was formerly president of the Modern Language Association of America. JUSTIN QUINN is Associate Professor at the Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic. IRENE RAMALHO SANTOS is Professor of English and American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and International Affiliate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. GARETH REEVES is Reader in English at University of Durham, UK. ROBERT REHDER is Chair of English and American Literature, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK is Professor of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230535844
• ISBN 13: 9780230535848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 263
• Editor: Eeckhout B., Ragg E.