The Wallace Stevens Journal
 

Teaching Wallace Stevens: Practical Essays

Edited by John N. Serio and B. J. Leggett


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
    • B. J. Leggett and John N. Serio

  • Classroom Strategies

    • Wallace Stevens: Teaching the Anthology Pieces-Helen Vendler
    • "The Emperor" and Its Clothes-Milton J. Bates
    • How Stevens Teaches Us to Read: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"-Lauren Rusk
    • Accurate Songs or Thinking-in-Poetry-Eleanor Cook
    • Introducing Wallace Stevens: Or, the Sheerly Playful and the Display of Theory in Stevens' Poetry-Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
    • Stevens at the Seminar Table-Elton Glaser
    • Teaching the Long Poem: The Example of "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction"- James C. Ransom

  • Prosody, Rhetoric, Diction, and Theme
    • Making Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man-Marie Borroff
    • Stevens' Prosody-George S. Lensing
    • Teaching Stevens' Poetry through Rhetorical Structure- P. Michael Campbell and John Dolan
    • Wallace Stevens in the Classroom: "More Truly and More Strange"-Alison Rieke
    • Learning Stevens' Language: The Will & the Weather-Joan Richardson
    • The Poles of Imagination and Reality: An Introduction to Wallace Stevens in the College Classroom-David C. Dougherty

  • Comparative Approaches
    • Lending No Part: Teaching Stevens with Williams-Lisa M. Steinman
    • Teaching Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore: The Search for an Open Mind -Robin Gail Schulze.
    • Teaching Wallace Stevens: The Relations between Poetry and Painting-Charles Doyle
    • A Stevens Play as Teaching Tool-J. M. Furniss
    • "Sunday Morning" at the Clavier: A Comparative Approach to Teaching Stevens -Dean Wentworth Bethea
    • Wallace Stevens, Computers, and Creative Writing-Janet McCann

  • Contexts
    • "Compass and Curriculum": Teaching Stevens Among the Moderns-A. Walton Litz
    • Teaching Stevens as a Late Romantic Poet-Joseph Carroll
    • Conceptualizing the Postmodern Enigma: "The Poems of Our Climate"-Janet Ellerby
    • Penelope's Experience: Teaching the Ethical Lessons of Wallace Stevens -Michael Beehler
    • Teaching the New Stevens-Margaret Dickie

  • Works Cited
  • Index

John N. Serio, Editor
Clarkson University
Box 5750
Potsdam, NY 13699
Phone: (315) 268 6410
Fax: (315) 268 3983
serio@clarkson.edu