Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value

by Charles Altieri

Book Overview

Charles Altieri, one of our foremost analysts of modernism, has in his recent work argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, Altieri focuses his attention on modernist poetry, especially that of Wallace Stevens. He argues that critics have failed to appreciate the degree to which modernist poetry, like modernist art,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478723
• ISBN13: 9780801478727
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher