Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons

by John Timberman Newcomb

Book Overview

This revealing study traces the mechanism of literary evaluation by which the work of Wallace Stevens became a central and revered part of the treasury of modern American poetry. It is a study of literary canonization, and though focused only upon Stevens, it sheds a strong ray of light upon the processes of canon formation operating in twentieth-century America.

Canonization is a phenomenon of literary culture. This analysis of how a writer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604738723
• ISBN13: 9781604738728
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"