Wallace Stevens in the World.

During my stay as Fellow-in-Residence at NIAS in Amsterdam, I intend to deepen the critical understanding of the many ways in which Wallace Stevens' writings simultaneously relate to the world and may be considered relevant to world literature. I will do so by developing a variety of complementary angles that will be pursued over three interrelated book projects. My first and main goal is to write a book whose working title is "Wallace Stevens' World Wide Web." My second goal consists of a collection of essays on "Wallace Stevens and France" that I will be coediting for Editions Rue d'Ulm/Presses de l'Ecole normale supérieure. This will explore Stevens' uses of French, the influence of French poetry and painting on his writings, the reception of his work in France, French translations of his poetry, and the relevance of French theorists for reading his work. My third and final goal is to finish an annotated selection of 101 poems by Stevens that I have been translating into Dutch over the years.

Keywords:AMERICAN MODERNIST POETRY, WORLD LITERATURE

Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies