World Literature

doi:10.1017/9781108973946.007

Chapter 6 - World Literature

from Part II - Recent Critical Methods Applied to Stevens

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021

Lee M. Jenkins

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Bart Eeckhout and

Gül Bilge Han

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Bart Eeckhout: Affiliation:
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Gül Bilge Han: Affiliation:
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

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This chapter assesses Wallace Stevens’s relationship and relevance to world literature under Pascale Casanova’s rubric of the “two orders,” political and aesthetic, that constitute the “world literary space.” Jenkins’s chapter argues that Stevens’s involvement in the global cultural marketplace and his defense of poetic autonomy, his projection of his poetry as a world in itself, are not incompatible but mutually constitutive of his complex relationship to world literature. The chapter explores Stevens’s orientalism and his reception, in translation, in contemporary Chinese poetry and in the Anglophone world poetries of Kashmiri American and Iranian American poets Agha Shahid Ali and Roger Sedarat. The chapter concludes with a consideration of Stevens’s significance, in translation, for contemporary Italian poets like Valerio Magrelli, and of his mixed reception in postwar British and Irish poetry.

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Wallace Stevens world literature Pascale Casanova Agha Shahid Ali Roger Sedarat Valerio Magrelli translation ghazal reception orientalism

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Information: The New Wallace Stevens Studies , pp. 87 - 99

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