The figure concealed
Subtitle: Wallace Stevens, music, and Valéryan echoes
By: Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781845194376
Subjects: Sound in literature; Knowledge; Music and literature; Poetics; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Music; History
Other titles: Wallace Stevens, music, and Valéryan echoes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: The figure concealed; title: Contours and transformations: the musical poetics of Stevens and Valéry; title: Resonant ideas: philosophy and music in Valéry's prose and poetry; title: Philosophical parallels and the poetics of variation; title: On the vocal chord: poetics of voice in Stevens and Valéry; title: Words of the exquisite appositeness: "Credences of summer"; title: The poetic promise of unreadable moments: "Things of August"; title: Eros and the play of sound in Wallace Stevens.