Ebook: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the desirous motions of poetic language

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: Can Beauty Hold a Plea? Toward a Theory of Poetic Gesture; Chapter Two: Two Meditations; Chapter Three: The Necessary Angel A Literal Body in a House of Words; Chapter Four: The Latent Double in the Word Metonymy, Synecdoche, and the Gesture of Speech; Chapter Five: Whose Spirit is This? The Touch of Thetis and the Poem's Gestural Context of Responsibility; Notes; Works Cited; Index.;First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.