David R. Jarraway - Wallace Stevens Among Others : Diva-Dames, Deleuze, and American Culture

Since the publication of my last book, Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (2003), the chapters assembled here are largely the result of several invitations to enlarge previous arguments among other contexts, but more fruitfully as I have come to discover, to depart from them in significant ways. I would therefore very much like to thank the following for their interest and engagement in the work that has happily come to result: the Wallace Stevens Society ( Celebrating Wallace Stevens: The Poet of Poets in Connecticut [2004]) and the Canadian Association of American Studies ( States of Emergency: Crisis, Panic, and the Nation [2009]) for chapter 1; Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English ( Interiors [2004] and Capital Connections: Nation, Terroir, Tertritoire [2009]) and Brown University ( A Hole in the Nation: American Literature after Deleuze [2009]) for chapter 3; the American Literature Association ( Stevens Erotic Poetics [2005]) and Northeast Modern Language Association ( Golden Age Hollywood and Sub-Text [2003]) for chapter 4; the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 ( Stevens and the New York School [2012]) and Trent University ( International Conference/Colloque International on / sur Gilles Deleuze [2004]) for chapter 5; the Modern Language Association ( Psychological Approaches to Literature [2005]) and the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia ( It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop [2011]) for chapter 6; and finally the American Film and History League ( Hitchcock [2004]) and Kings College at the University of Western Ontario ( Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze & Guattari and the Arts [2012]) for the conclusion.

Once again, I am grateful to the Office of Research and Publications at the University of Ottawa for the generous support it has lent over several years to the presentation of my work both in Canada and abroad. My gratitude is further extended to the Research and Publications Committee at Ottawa for its generous assistance on the permissions, and to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for the three years of a Standard Research Award to help finance my work in its initial stages. Of a more personal nature, I extend thanks to my colleagues in the English Department at Ottawa for their continued interest in and support of this new project, and especially to that exemplary champion of Miss Bishop through the years, Professor David Staines. I should also like to thank my Canadian editor at McGill-Queens University Press, Mark Abley, for his unstinting support of an essentially Americanist manuscript, and to a very capable team at the press Ryan Van Huijstee, Ellie Barton, and Filomena Falocco that has steered it seamlessly through the rigours of production the minor defects of which, if any, redound entirely to me. Thanks also to Stephan Ullstrom for preparing the index. Finally, the fondest of accolades to my life partner, Ian McDonald, whose endless faith and good counsel through years of composing and presenting never falter, and without which, as ever, naught.

PERMISSIONS

Excerpts from The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest by Barbara Guest, copyright 2008, published by Wesleyan University Press, and used by permission.

Excerpts from Source in Source by Mark Doty, copyright Mark Doty, and reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpts from Nocturne in Black and Gold, Fog Argument, and Grosse Fugue in Atlantis by Mark Doty. Copyright by Mark Doty, and reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpts from The End of March and Sandpiper from The Complete Poems 19271979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright 1979, 1983 by Alice Methfessel.

Excerpts from Master of the Golden Glow, The Morning of the Poem, Now and Then, and Voyage autour de mes cartes postales from the Collected Poems by James Schuyler. Copyright 1993 by the Estate of James Schuyler, and reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Excerpts from Asides on the Oboe, The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain, Prologues to What Is Possible, To an Old Philosopher in Rome, Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz, A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, A Primitive like an Orb, Phosphor Reading by His Own Light, Adult Epigram, Yellow Afternoon, Two Versions of the Same Poem, Montrachet-le-Jardin, Jumbo, Boquet of Belle Scavoir, and Contrary Theses [II] from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LL C. All rights reserved.

WALLACE STEVENS AMONG OTHERS

The Theory of Poetry Is the Life of Poetry The

Theory of Poetry Is the Theory of Life.

Wallace Stevens, Adagia (Collected Poetry and Prose)