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The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Siobhan Phillips
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Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"--recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of ... Read more
Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"--recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149303
SKU
V9780231149303
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About Siobhan Phillips
Siobhan Phillips earned her Ph.D. at Yale University and is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her writing has appeared in PMLA, Prospect, and Hudson Review.
Reviews for The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
A compelling study of the function of "everyday time" in the works of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merril... Recommended. Choice