Charles Altieri was the Rachel Stageberg Anderson Professor and onetime Chair in the Department of English at the

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. He retired in 2019.

Background

Altieri specialized in 20th-century

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and

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and taught graduate courses on Nineteenth-Century Thought, Victorian Literature, Modern and Contemporary English and

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, Modern and Classical Literary Theory, Literature and the

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, and seminars on specific poets, theoretical problems, and interdisciplinary period studies. In his book on the reading of

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

as a proponent of what Altieri calls "philosophical poetry," Altieri discusses his own reading of the relevance of such philosophers as Hegel and Wittgenstein while presenting a speculative interpretation of Stevens under this interpretative approach.Charles Altieri. ''Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value.'' Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Awards

*Summer Fellowship, New York State, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975. *NEH Younger Humanist Fellowship, 1975. *Invited Fellow: Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,

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, 1980-1981. *

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, 1980-1981. *Co-Director EH Summer Institute on Ethics and Aesthetics, 1993. *Elected to

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(April, 2003)

Books

*''Bibliography of Modern and Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry''. Chicago: AHM Publishing Corp., Spring, 1979. *''Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry of the 1960s''. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, Spring 1979. *''Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning''. Amherst:

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, 1981. *''Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. *''Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Paperback: Penn State Press, 1994. *''Canons and Consequences''. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990. *''Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications''. Oxford: Blackwells, 1994. *''Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts''. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1998. *''The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. *''The Art of Modern American Poetry''. Oxford. Blackwells, 2005. *''Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value''. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013

References

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