This book presents for the first time a thorough study of the imagery in Wallace Stevens's poetry and the patterns which these images form. Heretofore, most discussions of Stevens's work presupposed an understanding of the difficult and bizarre surface imagery and dealt mainly with broad generalizations which often left the student of Stevens's poems unsatisfied. The brilliant surface of the poems, the detailed imagery of specific passages, is here examined clearly and systematically. The images, indexed at the back of the book, are examined in four natural groups: Figures of the Mind, of Disorder, of Order, and of Change. The last half of the book is concerned with close analyses of some longer poems of Stevens's using the information gleaned from the "anatomy" of the first half.

Wallace Stevens: An Anatomy of Figuration (Anniversary Collection)

Literature & Fiction

Nassar, Eugene Paul

History & Criticism

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

This volume is intended to fill a need long felt by teachers who, year after year, have their students read Dante's Inferno in world literature or Italian language courses. The student is fascinated by Dante's overpowering visual imagination, and illustrative material directly treating or at least influenced by the Inferno is often sought. However, such a search can be carried on with some comprehensiveness only in the largest libraries in America, and then often only in the rare book rooms of these libraries.In the three decades, in conjunction with the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1265, several magnificent volumes dealing with illustrations to the Divine Comedy have been published. However, many of these are foreign-language editions rarely found on American library shelves. Additionally, such volumes are both expensive and specialized, covering specific time periods, such as the miniatures in the illuminated manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the earliest printed editions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, or the illustrations of a single artist, such as Botticelli, Signorelli, or Blake.Illustrations to Dante's Inferno offers to a general readership, in a relatively compact and inexpensive format, a critical overview of illustrations to the Inferno from the age of Dante to modern times. Professor Nassar has selected more than 400 plates (many in color) for inclusion in this volume. His criteria for selection are those of a literary critic seeking fidelity to the tone and texture of a literary masterpiece, as is discussed in the introduction. He has organized the selections in a canto-by-canto format, which will prove convenient for both the teacher and student and will also allow for comparative studies. Also included are a select list of illustrated editions, a select bibliography, and a comprehensive index.

Illustrations to Dante's Inferno

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

UNKNO

Memories of East Utica: Part 1

Cambridge Book Co

Memories of East Utica: Part 2 (Memories of East Utica)

Cambridge Book Company

<p>A lyrical memoir of growing up Lebanese-American in the Italian-American neighborhood of East Utica, New York, in the 1940's-1960's. The author dramatizes the life of a "marginal man," living the two lives of a proud ethnic and developing scholar.</p>

East Utica

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>"Illustrations to Dante's Inferno" offers to a general readership, in a compact and inexpensive format, and through 400 plates, a critical overview of illustrations to the Inferno from the age of Dante to modern times.</p>

Personal essays by a scholar and literary critic in his eightieth year, with illustrations by Robert Cimbalo.

Essays at Eighty

Essays & Correspondence

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