Tune Beyond Us Yet Ourselves Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens: A Tune Beyond Us Yet Ourselves (Hardcover)

In this study Daniel R. Schwarz argues that the narrative and representational aspects of Stevens s poetry have been neglected in favour of readings that stress his word play and rhetoricity. Schwarz shows how Stevens s concept of representation is deeply influenced by modern painters such as Picasso and Duchamp. He shows that Stevens s poetry needs to be understood in terms of a number of major contexts: the American tradition of Emerson and Whitman the Romantic movement and the Modernist tradition.