Book contents
- The New Wallace Stevens Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Wallace Stevens Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction That Which Is Always Beginning
- Part I Emerging Concepts in Stevens Criticism
- Part II Recent Critical Methods Applied to Stevens
- Chapter 6 World Literature
- Chapter 7 Ecological Poetics
- Chapter 8 Urban Studies
- Chapter 9 Queer Studies
- Chapter 10 Intersectional Studies
- Chapter 11 Cognitive Literary Studies
- Part III Revisionary Readings of Stevens
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - World Literature
from Part II - Recent Critical Methods Applied to Stevens
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
Book contents
- The New Wallace Stevens Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Wallace Stevens Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction That Which Is Always Beginning
- Part I Emerging Concepts in Stevens Criticism
- Part II Recent Critical Methods Applied to Stevens
- Chapter 6 World Literature
- Chapter 7 Ecological Poetics
- Chapter 8 Urban Studies
- Chapter 9 Queer Studies
- Chapter 10 Intersectional Studies
- Chapter 11 Cognitive Literary Studies
- Part III Revisionary Readings of Stevens
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter assesses Wallace Stevens’s relationship and relevance to world literature under Pascale Casanova’s rubric of the “two orders,” political and aesthetic, that constitute the “world literary space.” Jenkins’s chapter argues that Stevens’s involvement in the global cultural marketplace and his defense of poetic autonomy, his projection of his poetry as a world in itself, are not incompatible but mutually constitutive of his complex relationship to world literature. The chapter explores Stevens’s orientalism and his reception, in translation, in contemporary Chinese poetry and in the Anglophone world poetries of Kashmiri American and Iranian American poets Agha Shahid Ali and Roger Sedarat. The chapter concludes with a consideration of Stevens’s significance, in translation, for contemporary Italian poets like Valerio Magrelli, and of his mixed reception in postwar British and Irish poetry.
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- The New Wallace Stevens Studies , pp. 87 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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