Daniel Tompsett

Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens' poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781138110175
• ISBN-10: 1138110175
• Artikelnr.: 57048045

Autorenporträt

Daniel Tompsett earned his PhD in English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London and is a Business Analysis Manager at a UK Law Firm.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Wallace Stevens, Pre
Socratic Philosophy and Ontological Literature 1. Approaching the Poetics of Being 2. The Ontological Experience of the Work of Art Part II: Wallace Stevens (1923
1942), Pre
Socratic Philosophy, and Immanuel Kant 3. After Kant: The Attempt to Experience the 'Thing
In
Itself' through the Pre
Socratic Element in the Philosophy of Art 4. Polemos and the Violent Nature of the 'Thing
in
Itself' Part III: Wallace Stevens (1947
1955) , Pre
Socratic Philosophy, and Immanuel Kant 5. A Pre
Socratic Sense of Being as the Universal 'Thing
in
Itself' 6. Death and Rebirth in the Universal 'Thing
in
Itself' Part IV: Wallace Stevens, Pre
Socratic Philosophy, and Religion 7. Poetry and Religion: 'Major Man' as Poetic Saviour 8. The 'Supreme Fiction' as the Transvaluation of Religion with Poetry Part V: Wallace Stevens, Pre
Socratic Philosophy, Violence, and Mythology 9. The Violence of a Reduction of Metaphysics in Wallace Stevens' Poetry 10. Stevens' Goddess and the Mythological Nature of Being as a 'Oneness' Conclusion