Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy : metaphysics and the play of violence /
Tompsett, Daniel.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252) and index.
Part I: Wallace Stevens, Pre-Socratic Philosophy and Ontological Literature. Approaching the Poetics of Being ; The Ontological Experience of the Work of Art. -- Part II: Wallace Stevens (1923 -1942), Pre-Socratic Philosophy, and Immanuel Kant. After Kant: The Attempt to Experience the 'Thing-In-Itself' through the Pre-Socratic Element in the Philosophy of Art ; Polemos and the Violent Nature of the 'Thing-in-Itself'. -- Part III: Wallace Stevens (1947-1955) , Pre-Socratic Philosophy, and Immanuel Kant ; A Pre-Socratic Sense of Being as the Universal 'Thing-in-Itself' ; Death and Rebirth in the Universal 'Thing-in-Itself'. -- Part IV: Wallace Stevens, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, and Religion. Poetry and Religion: 'Major Man' as Poetic Saviour ; The 'Supreme Fiction' as the Transvaluation of Religion with Poetry. -- Part V: Wallace Stevens, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Violence, and Mythology. The Violence of a Reduction of Metaphysics in Wallace Stevens' Poetry ; Stevens' Goddess and the Mythological Nature of Being as a 'Oneness'. -- Conclusion.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Philosophy, Ancient.
Metaphysics in literature.