Xavier Kalck, Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy: A Test of Reading and Interpretive Techniques
June 2023
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Transatlantica: Revue d'Études Américaines
Xavier Kalck, <i>Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy: A Test of Reading and Interpretive Techniques</i>, New York, Routledge, 2021, 198 p., ISBN : 9780429200786 (e-book), £31.19.
American Philosophy
December 2016
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Wallace Stevens in Context
This book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the great twentieth-century American poets. In thirty-six short essays, an international team of distinguished scholars have created a comprehensive overview of Stevens' life and the world of his poetry. Individual chapters relate Stevens to important contexts such as the large Western movements of romanticism and modernism; particular American and European philosophical traditions; contemporary and later poets; the professional realms of law and insurance; the parallel art forms of painting, music, and theater; his publication history, critical reception, and his international reputation. Other chapters address topics of current interest such as war, politics, religion, race and the feminine. Informed by the latest developments in the field, but written in clear, jargon-free prose, Wallace Stevens in Context is an indispensable introduction to this great modern poet.
The California Fruit of the Ideal: Stevens and Robert Hass
November 2016
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Chapter
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Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens
Locating American experience: Cavell’s paths to film and transcendentalism
March 2015
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Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
<p style="text-align:justify;"> For Cavell, American transcendentalism and film share the capacity to provide an education in taking an interest in one’s experience. The results of such interest are for him ultimately political, allowing for self-cultivation and hence for mutual progress; an aspiration both romantic and liberal. However, the meeting of an experiential focus with political hopes extends beyond Cavell, and the wider fact of this convergence allows us to conceive his project as part of a broader milieu. One way to think Cavell historically is to consider some of the contexts in which his voice was forged. Although he sometimes alludes to it, we don’t readily associate Cavell with 1960s radicalism, the counterculture, or the New Left. His sensibility and concerns seem more abstract than this, and operate on other planes than activism or polemic. His voice also unmistakably belongs to both a disciplinary training in philosophy (specifically, a 1950s analytic context) and to an earlier generation. Yet granting the unmistakable significance of these, we can still observe that despite his originality, and his anomalousness as an analytic philosopher, Cavell is not an a-contextual voice in American letters. He is not alone in exploring the value of attention to (American) experience as a resource for improvement, a fact to which he himself draws notice. Further, he anticipates certain developments in our critical present centred around the possibilities for a tone of hope and optimism with more than personal implications. </p>
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The Experience of the Movies: Stanley Cavell’s Hollywood and Robert Warshow
January 2013
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Chapter
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Stanley Cavell, Literature, and the Idea of America
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
May 2012
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Journal article
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Journal of American Studies
Public Desires, Private Desires: The Satisfactions of Stevens and Stanley Cavell
March 2012
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Wallace Stevens Journal
Public Desires, Private Desires: The Satisfactions of Stevens and Stanley Cavell
March 2012
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Wallace Stevens Journal
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
‘The Ethics of William Carlos Williams’s Poetry’, Ian D. Copestake
January 2012
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Journal article
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American Studies Today
Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson
January 2010
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American Studies Today
Douglas R. Anderson, Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006, £16.95/$24.00). Pp. ix+253. isbn 0 8232 2551 8.
August 2007
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Journal article
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Journal of American Studies
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies