American Studies in Germany (Particularly West Germany) Between the Cold War Period and the Early Twenty-First Century - Reminiscences of a Participant Observer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-201 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/147757008x280777 |
| OpenAlex | W1486125256 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay reconsiders the proto-ecological qualities of Wallace Stevens' poetry through a detailed reading of 'Earthy Anecdote', the little riddle poem that opens the writer's first volume, Harmonium. It argues that the poem fulfils a variety of purposes that cannot be all contained by an ecocritical reading: while it may certainly be understood as reflecting Stevens' investment in earth's natural cycles and its unspoiled natural environments, or as an affirmation of natural vitality rooted in the body and the senses, it is also about a poet in the act of finding a simultaneously local and international voice in modern art, about that poet's exploration of questions of image making or his confrontation with the epistemological and signifying limits of poetry, and about his attempts at reinventing the genre of the lyric
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Anecdote · Archaeology · Art · Close reading · Cold war · Ecocriticism · Economic history · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Vitality · West germany · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · German Social Sciences and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |