The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry

by Thomas Grey

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Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. In this important extension of the recent law-and-literature movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet and implicitly a pragmatist legal theorist, who illustrates how human thought proceeds through "assertion, qualification, and qualified reassertion," and how reason and passion...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674284011

ISBN13:9780674284012

Release Date:February 1991

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:155 Pages

Weight:0.91 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Law Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry

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