How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Formalism (PLUS)
6. Poetry: A Note on Ontology 43
7. Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes 61
8. Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats 72
9. The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoön Revisited 88
10. Examples of Wallace Stevens 111
11. How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens 136
12. Stevens and Keats’s ‘‘To Autumn’’ 156
13. ‘‘Lycidas’’: A Poem Finally Anonymous 175
14. After Formalism?
15. Literary History and Literary Modernity 197
16. Acts of Cultural Criticism 216
17. Nostalgia for the Present 226
18. The Mousetrap 243
19. Jane Austen’s Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents) 272
20. Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl 301
21. Ulysses and the Twentieth Century 321
22. To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode 337
23. The World and the Home 366
24. Contributors 381
25. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 385
26. Index 387