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GABRIEL'S NEMESES: STEVENS'S ANGELS (WALLACE STEVENS, POETRY, PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH)

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1986
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The word "angel" derives from "messenger" and enters into the language from the Hebrew mal' ahyehowah "messenger of Jehovah." In Stevens's cosmos, the gods have come to nothing, and so he metamorphoses the western, metaphysical sense of "messenger of God," while maintaining its messenger topos. Stevens's decreation of angel is an exercise in the language about the language. Stevens's new messenger is the poet, like Heidegger's Da-Sein. Stevens's angel poetry is filled with images that are "metagenetic," a characteristic that describes their metamorphic repetition. In the continuous repetition of the angel image, metaphor, and symbol, Stevens develops a poetic theory that differs from the phallologocentric beginnings of the traditional western metaphysical angel. Stevens supplants traditional poetic apotheosis with a transcendence/immanence defined as the aesthetic condition of fuller Being. Angels, destructured and restructured as a fiction, enable the poet and readers to refocus on the needs and aesthetics of contemporary perception.
Title: GABRIEL'S NEMESES: STEVENS'S ANGELS (WALLACE STEVENS, POETRY, PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH).
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Name(s): ENDRUSCHAT, MARY ELIZABETH.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 105 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The word "angel" derives from "messenger" and enters into the language from the Hebrew mal' ahyehowah "messenger of Jehovah." In Stevens's cosmos, the gods have come to nothing, and so he metamorphoses the western, metaphysical sense of "messenger of God," while maintaining its messenger topos. Stevens's decreation of angel is an exercise in the language about the language. Stevens's new messenger is the poet, like Heidegger's Da-Sein. Stevens's angel poetry is filled with images that are "metagenetic," a characteristic that describes their metamorphic repetition. In the continuous repetition of the angel image, metaphor, and symbol, Stevens develops a poetic theory that differs from the phallologocentric beginnings of the traditional western metaphysical angel. Stevens supplants traditional poetic apotheosis with a transcendence/immanence defined as the aesthetic condition of fuller Being. Angels, destructured and restructured as a fiction, enable the poet and readers to refocus on the needs and aesthetics of contemporary perception.
Identifier: 14303 (digitool), FADT14303 (IID), fau:11111 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation.
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