The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text
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The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-175) and index
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Book Cover; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Forms of Repetition; Chapter Two "Thinking with AND": Whitman's Repetitions and the Thought of the Multiple; Chapter Three "The Motion of Thought and its Restless Iteration": Wallace Stevens and the Turns of Repetition; Chapter Four "The Unfamiliar Stereotype": Repetition in the Poetry of John Ashbery; Notes; Works Cited; Index