The The: Stevens's Neighborliness

Gould, Thomas (2023) The The: Stevens's Neighborliness. In: Wallace Stevens in Theory. Liverpool University Press, 183–196. ISBN 9781837645145

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Abstract

This chapter argues that Stevens’s poetry relates to other people in the manner of a neighbour. It argues that Stevens’ post-theological positionality places him in a particularly modern tradition of re-thinking what it means to live alongside others as a neighbour in a secular ecology. It draws from a number of thinkers of neighbourliness: Freud, Zizek, Eric Santner, and Kierkegaard. The chapter also argue that Stevens’s poems enact formal neighbourhoods, deriving sense and aesthetic pleasure from the side-by-side relations that characterise their elements.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Legible / Visible
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 09:30
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2026 23:02
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89194
DOI:	10.3828/liverpool/9781837645145.003.0013

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