Gul Bilge Han – författare

Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy presents a rethinking of modernist claims to autonomy by focusing on the work of Wallace Stevens, one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century. By showing how multiple socio-political currents underlie and motivate Stevens'' version of autonomy, the book challenges the commonly received accounts of the term as art and literature''s escape from the world. It provides new and close readings of Stevens'' work including poems from different stages of the poet''s career. It re-energizes a tradition of historicist readings of Stevens from the 1980s and 1990s. The study of Stevens'' work in this book is developed in constant dialogue with current studies in modernism and aesthetic theory, particularly those offered by Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. The book explores the question of autonomy in Stevens'' exploration of the aesthetic and social domains, and the vexed issue of his poetry''s relation to philosophical thinking.

Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy presents a rethinking of modernist claims to autonomy by focusing on the work of Wallace Stevens, one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century. By showing how multiple socio-political currents underlie and motivate Stevens'' version of autonomy, the book challenges the commonly received accounts of the term as art and literature''s escape from the world. It provides new and close readings of Stevens'' work including poems from different stages of the poet''s career. It re-energizes a tradition of historicist readings of Stevens from the 1980s and 1990s. The study of Stevens'' work in this book is developed in constant dialogue with current studies in modernism and aesthetic theory, particularly those offered by Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. The book explores the question of autonomy in Stevens'' exploration of the aesthetic and social domains, and the vexed issue of his poetry''s relation to philosophical thinking.

The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second section applies recent methodological and theoretical advances that have left a prominent mark on literary studies - from world literature and ecocriticism to urban studies, queer studies, intersectional thinking, and cognitive literary studies. Essays in the third section reassess issues that have long inspired critics. Here investigations include Stevens''s reception by later poets, his attitude toward modern fiction, different modes of his poetic thinking, aspects of his rhetoric and style, and his lyrical ethics. This volume captures a cross-section of the most striking recent developments in Stevens criticism.