Wallace Stevens: Lyrisch Philosophieren

Abstract: Wallace Stevens is widely regarded as an author whose poetry possesses a particularly close affinity to philosophy, which is usually taken to mean that his poems contain statements of philosophical concepts or propositions. In contrast to this, the following article examines the relation of Stevens’s poetry and philosophy with respect not to the contents of his poems but to their sequential structure. This analytic focus is motivated by the observation that the progression of the utterance in a great many of Stevens’s poems appears to be modelled on the principles of philosophical argumentation: i.e., that the poems go through a quasi-philosophical process of questioning, reflection, and cognition. As lyric poems, however, they pursue this practical process of thinking and arguing on the basis of the principles of poetic composition. The poems can thus be described as employing two different discourse types at the same time and in interaction with each other: philosophical argument.... https://izfk.uni-trier.de/index.php/izfk/article/view/95

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Language
Deutsch

Bibliographic citation
Wallace Stevens: Lyrisch Philosophieren ; volume:5 ; day:28 ; month:03 ; year:2022
Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik ; 5 (28.03.2022)

Creator
Hühn, Peter

DOI
10.25353/ubtr-izfk-3497-54ae
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022052707192015716851
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