"This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevenss poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a philosophical reading of Stevens, it uses Heideggers theories as a framework through which Stevenss poetry can be read and shows how philosophy and literature can enter into a productive dialogue. It also makes a case for a Heideggerian reading of poetry, exploring his later philosophy with respect to his writing on art, language, and poetry. Taking Stevenss repeated emphasis on the terms "being," "consciousness," "reality," and "truth" as its starting point, the book provides a new reading of Stevens with a philosopher who aligns poetic insight with a reconceptualization of the metaphysical significance of these concepts. It pursues the link between philosophy, American poetry as reflected through Stevens, and modernist poetics, looking from Stevenss modernist techniques to broader European philosophical movements of the twentieth century."--Page [4] of cover

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American literature readings in the 21st century, Cham, Switzerland, 2022

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Contents 6
Abbreviations 8
Chapter 1: Introduction: Language as “Quasi”-Transcendental Presence—Phenomenology and Poetry 10
Phenomenology and Poetry 10
The Poetry of the Lifeworld: Husserl’s Transcendental Position 13
The Style(s) of Encounter: Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics of Situation 16
Of Mere Presence Which Comes to Mind: Nancy and Badiou’s Thinking of the Event 19
The Appropriative “Force” of Ereignis and Poetry: Heidegger’s Transcendental Horizon 24
The Shape of the Argument 26
Chapter 2: “Not Ours Although We Understood”: The Language of Stevens and Heidegger 30
Wallace Stevens as a “Philosophical Poet” 30
Language as the Site of Appropriation: The Case for Stevens and Heidegger 32
The “Poet of Reality” and Image of Stevens in Criticism 36
Poetry and “Dwelling”: Stevens and Heidegger’s topology of Being 38
Stevens Contra Nietzsche and the Postmodern Sentiment 40
Being’s Monological Tyranny: Some Limitations to the Heideggerian Approach 44
Stevens and Phenomenology: The Move Past the Husserlian Reduction 46
Stevens, Language and the Proximity Afforded by Poetry 51
Reading and the Opening of Being: Stevens, Heidegger and “Poetic Dwelling” 55
Chapter 3: The Neighbouring of Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking from/with the Event of Ereignis 57
The Poesis of Ereignis 57
Heidegger’s Destruction of Metaphysics: Thinking the Ontological Difference as Difference 59
The Happening of the Word Ereignis in the Context of Heidegger’s Philosophy 63
Ereignis and Heidegger’s Analyses of Poetry and Art 66
Ereignis and Poetic Encounter: Heidegger, Stevens and the Hermeneutical Moment 67
Chapter 4: Considering Presence and Place in Stevens’ Harmonium 71
The Reception of Stevens 71
Heideggerian Poetics and a Renewed Reading of Harmonium 75
Death and the Sense of the World in Harmonium 76
“Sunday Morning” and the Post-Metaphysical Poem 81
“The Comedian as the Letter C” and Poetic Appropriation 83
Harmonium and the Philosophical Force of Multiplicity 86
Conclusion 88
Chapter 5: Ideology, Politics and Life in the Polis for Heidegger, Stevens and American Poetry in the 1930s 90
Politics and Commitment to the Polis in Heidegger and Stevens 90
Political Poetry in the 1930s: Absorption, Resistance and Pragmatic Accommodation 93
Heidegger’s Political Thought in the 1930s and the Unity of Being as polis 97
Stevens and the Necessity for/of Change as Political Statement 102
Ideas of Order and the Change of “harmonic” Aesthetic Vision 105
The Song of the Singer and the “Art” of Order at Key West 111
“Owl’s Clover” and the Response to Stanley Burnshaw 114
The Guitarist and the Multitude: The Portrait of the Artist as Stevens’ Guitarist 119
Conclusion 123
Chapter 6: Stevens’ Supreme Fiction and the Location of Truth as/in Philosophy 125
The Supreme Fiction Reconsidered 125
The Supreme Fiction and Theology: Poetry’s Opening Towards God 127
Appropriating and/the Beginning: Ereignis and the Other Opening to Metaphysics 131
Poetry and Truth: The “Theological” Language of Revelation and Belief in “Credences of Summer” (1946) 133
“Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction” as Poetic Statement 136
Conclusion 143
Chapter 7: To See Things as They Finally Are: The Question of Being in the Late Poetry 145
The Question of Late Style in Stevens 145
The Auroras of Autumn and the Approach to Reality 148
The Achievement of Vision in “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” 154
The Rock and Poetic (Dis)Illusion: Barrenness as New Romance 160
“The Artificer of the World” Singing “a Foreign Song”: Stevens and Heidegger’s Challenge to Poetic Thinking 166
Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Task of the Heideggerian Critic and the Adventure of Poetry’s Being 170
Introduction: A Poetic Summing-up and an Indeterminacy 170
Journeys Inwards and Outwards: Stevens’ Last Poems and the Adventure Towards ... 172
Reading as (Dis)Appropriation: Hamacher, Stevens and the “Poetry” of Poetry 176
A Missed Encounter and a Possible Reckoning: Stevens on Heidegger 177
Bibliography 179
Name Index 193
Subject Index 198

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a philosophical reading of Stevens, it uses Heidegger’s theories as a framework through which Stevens’s poetry can be read and shows how philosophy and literature can enter into a productive dialogue. It also makes a case for a Heideggerian reading of poetry, exploring his later philosophy with respect to his writing on art, language, and poetry. Taking Stevens’s repeated emphasis on the terms “being”, “consciousness”, “reality” and “truth” as its starting point, the book provides a new reading of Stevens with a philosopher who aligns poetic insight with a reconceptualization of the metaphysical significance of these concepts. It pursues the link between philosophy, American poetry as reflected through Stevens, and modernist poetics, lookingfrom Stevens’s modernist techniques to broader European philosophical movements of the twentieth century.
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2022

2022-10-23