Teaching Wallace Stevens : practical essays / edited by John N. Serio and B.J. Leggett.

Contributor Serio, John N., 1943-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1994.

Descriptionxvii, 313 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:PART I. CLASSROOM STRATEGIES: Wallace Stevens: teaching the anthology pieces / Helen Vendler -- "The Emperor" and its clothes / Milton J. Bates -- How Stevens teaches us to read: "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" / Lauren Rusk -- Accurate songs or thinking-in-poetry / Eleanor Cook -- Introducing Wallace Stevens: or, the sheerly playful and the display of theory in Stevens' poetry / Jacqueline Vaught Brogan -- Stevens at the seminar table / Elton Glaser -- Teaching the long poem: the example of "Notes toward a supreme fiction" / James C. Ransom -- PART II. PROSODY, RHETORIC, DICTION, AND THEME: Making sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Marie Borroff -- Stevens's prosody / George S. Lensing -- Teaching Stevens's poetry through rhetorical structure / P. Michael Campbell, John Dolan -- Wallace Stevens in the classroom: "More truly and more strange" / Alison Rieke -- Learning Stevens's language: the will & the weather / Joan Richardson -- The poles of imagination and reality: an introduction to Wallace Stevens in the college classroom / David C. Dougherty -- PART III. COMPARATIVE APPROACHES: Lending no part: teaching Stevens with Williams / Lisa M. Steinman -- Teaching Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore: the search for an open mind / Robin Gail Schulze -- Teaching Wallace Stevens: the relations between poetry and painting / Charles Doyle -- A Stevens play as teaching tool / J.M. Furniss -- "Sunday morning" at the clavier: a comparative approach to teaching Stevens / Dean Wentworth Bethea -- Wallace Stevens, computers, and creative writing / Janet mcCann -- PART IV. CONTEXTS: "Compass and curriculum": teaching Stevens among the moderns / A. Walton Litz -- Teaching Stevens as a late romantic poet / Joseph Carroll -- Conceptualizing the postmodern enigma: "The poems of our climate" / Janet Ellerby -- Penelope's experience: teaching the ethical lessons of Wallace Stevens / Michael Beehler -- Teaching the new Stevens / Margaret DIckie.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.

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