“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE EXPLICATOR Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/00144940.2023.2223893
Hossein Pirnajmuddin
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Abstract This article offers a reading of Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” in terms of its affective affordances. It is argued that the poem rhetorically imagines the possibility of having “a mind of winter” as being incapable of affect, that is, being inhuman. Thus, the central theme of the relation between mind and world is cast as a double encounter between the human and non-human as well as the inhuman and the non-human.
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“冬天的心灵”:华莱士·史蒂文斯《雪人》中的情感
本文从情感启示的角度来解读华莱士·史蒂文斯的《雪人》。有人认为,这首诗在修辞上把拥有“冬天的心”的可能性想象为没有感情,也就是说,没有人性。因此,心灵与世界关系的中心主题被塑造成人类与非人类以及非人与非人类之间的双重遭遇。
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期刊介绍: Concentrating on works that are frequently anthologized and studied in college classrooms, The Explicator, with its yearly index of titles, is a must for college and university libraries and teachers of literature. Text-based criticism thrives in The Explicator. One of few in its class, the journal publishes concise notes on passages of prose and poetry. Each issue contains between 25 and 30 notes on works of literature, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman times to our own, from throughout the world. Students rely on The Explicator for insight into works they are studying.
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