The Wallace Stevens case : law and the practice of poetry
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The Wallace Stevens case : law and the practice of poetry
Harvard University Press, 1991
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-148) and index
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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. Though Stevens tried hard to separate his poetry from his profession, the legal theorist Thomas Grey shows that he did not ultimately succeed. After stressing how little connection appears on the surface between the two parts of Steven's life, Grey argues that the poetry, in its pragmatic account of human reasoning, distinctively illuminates the workings of the law. In this extension of the law-and-literature movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet and implicitly a pragmatic legal theorist, who illustrates how human thought proceeds through "assertion, qualification, and qualified reassertion", and how reason and passion fuse in the act of interpretation. At the same time as he discovers in Stevens a pragmatist philosopher of law, Grey offers new perspective on the poetry itself.
In the poems that develop Stevens's "reality-imagination complex" - pieces often criticized as remote, a political, and hermetic - Grey finds a body of work that not only captures the reader but also provides a unique instrument for scrutinizing the thought processes of lawyers and judges in their exercise of social power.
目次
Introduction I. An Occupation, an Exercise, a Work II. The Unpeopled World III. Fat Cat, Ghostly Rabbit IV. Steel against Intimation V. A Change Not Quite Completed VI. The Colors of the Mind Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Credits Index
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