Nothing That Is
The Structure of Consciousness in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

By Daniel Andersson
July 2006
Uppsala University Press
ISBN: 9155464572
241 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2""
$65.00 Paper Original

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This Ph.D. dissertation discusses the writings of Wallace Steven (1879-1955), one of America’s literary giants. The book regard Stevens’ collected work as a unified whole or as an imaginary universe in which a consciousnesses is manifested by a specific thematic design. The thematic categories are: the descent, nothingness, and the ascent.

Partial Contents:

Collected Works—Chronology, Genre, Form.
Ars Poetica.
Destructive Creation.
The Idea of Order at Kew West.
Owl’s Clover.
Poems from Parts of a World.
The Rock.
The Snow Man.
Academic Discourse at Havana.
Credences of Summer.
Harmonium Poems.
Evening Without Angels.
Of Mere Being.
Postscript.
Bibliography.
Index.

Literature

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