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Wallace Stevens: the determining personality
This study examines Wallace Stevens' personality as revealed in his journals and letters. It attempts to show how the underlying forces at work in Stevens' temperament stimulated and shaped his poems. My purpose is to shift the emphasis away from the usual view of Stevens as a philosophical poet of …
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The Dilemma of Reality in Stevens' 'Harmonium.'
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
<p>On a first reading, Wallace Stevens‘ poems present a confusing spectrum of mutually cancelling ideas and opaque images that defy translation to rational terms. The author intends to foster some confusion, and not to present poetic theorems. But part of the surface ambiguity resolves itself on …
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF HENRY ISAAC STEVENS — ARCHITECT
The study of the life and work of Henry Isaac Stevens, a provincial architect, born in London in 1806, but working from Derby between 1837 until his death in 1873, has provided an excellent subject for research. Stevens, and his contemporaries of a similar age, who completed their training in the …
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Geology of part of the Inchelium Quadrangle, Stevens County, Washington
… area is located 15 km southwest of Colville, in Stevens County, Washington. This thesis is part of a larger project to prepare a geologic map of the Inchelium quadrangle. The purpose of this study is to identify the stratigraphic units in the miogeosynclinal rocks so that the details of their …
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The Mind of Winter: Poetic Theories of Yeats and Stevens
… being and nothingness, and to show how Yeats and Stevens used related imagery of cold, ice, and stone in the service of their poetic imagination.</p> <p>In Part I I am chiefly concerned with the genesis of these images and conflicts. I felt that it was important to view the poets' backgrounds, …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… essay 'Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens', which concerns the American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric Jameson's assertion that Stevens cultivated a style that favours impersonality and abstract universality …
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The Longest Resonance: A Comparative Study of Keats and Stevens
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A Performance Analysis of the Solo Clarinet Works of Halsey Stevens
… clarinet works by the American composer Halsey Stevens. The first chapter is a statement of the purpose, delimitations and procedures employed. The second chapter is a biographical sketch of the composer. The remaining eight chapters are devoted to the following works: Three Hungarian Folksongs, …
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The Sensuous Order, Faith and Love in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
The purpose of this study is to show Wallace Stevens' intense valuation of the sensuous order of the universe through discussions of his various works and their criticism. Also, the love themes and spiritual convictions which result from the poet's emphasis upon the things of this world will be …
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Prevalence of chronic ocular complications in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis
The main objective of the study is to identify and grade the severity of chronic ocular complications in patients who were treated for SJS and TEN at Groote Schuur Hospital. The secondary objective is to identify patients who need referrals to specialist ophthalmic clinics for treatable ocular …
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Stevens After Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics
… their concomitant. This study resituates Wallace Stevens in the ontological universe of "a life" as opposed to the common practice of associating him with the questions of subject, object, and transcendence. It observes that Stevens's poetry primarily invests the field of the other, which …
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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
… the affirmation of life evident in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, defining the term affirmation by the expansive embrace of suffering demonstrated by Alyosha Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I maintain that, similar to …
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(Extra)Ordinary evenings in New H(e)aven: the religious element in the poetics of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was profoundly affected by Nietzsche’s declaration of the death of God and his poetry reflects an ongoing struggle to understand what it means to be a poet in an age of disbelief. Although Steven’s early poetry suggests that this loss of belief created a sense of crisis in the poet, …
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Relative Abundance, Distribution, and Life Histories of Fish Species in the Colville River Watershed, Stevens County, Washington
… fish assemblage of the Colville River watershed, Stevens County, Washington. Sixty-nine sites were sampled from May – November of 2013, 19 in the Colville River and 50 in its tributaries: Blue Creek (n=2), Chewelah Creek (n=6), Cottonwood Creek (n=2), Deer Creek (n=2), Gold Creek (n=3),Haller …
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A Study of the In-Service Education Programs Available to Elementary Principals in Spokane, Stevens and Whitman Counties
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the availability of in-service education programs to elementary principals in a selected geographical area, to determine who planned the programs, what types of programs were available and what areas of study were included in these programs.
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… a destructive reading of the poetry of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson—the structure of the dissertation is “actually” circular. For the most part, the condition for the possibility of performing the destruction of the traditional critical rhetorics in chapters one through three is an awareness of …
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The mechanism of photo-induced Stevens rearrangement of sulfonium ylides, and exploration of the chemical properties of ylidions
The mechanism of the photo-induced Stevens rearrangement of sulfonium ylides has been investigated. The chemical properties of phenacylsulfonium ylidions generated by sensitization with dicyanoanthracene (DCA) have been experimentally explored.
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