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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Wallace Stevens"”.
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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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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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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… Jameson's 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 …
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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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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
… thesis traces 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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Finding the Self
… Oliver, Charles Olsen, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens. Additionally, Mark Strand and Evan Boland are featured for their commentary on the work of Edna St. Vincent Milay which evened out and completed my observations in my attempt to express myself through a poetic journey of "finding …
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Another City
… is divided into two sections: an essay titled "Stevens' Ontology: Struggles of the Mind" and a book manuscript titled Another City."Stevens' Ontology: Struggles of the Mind" presents an examination of the ontological vision Wallace Stevens presents in his poem "Sunday Morning" and then considers …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… theory, novelists and poets such as Munro, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Tolstoy, Carver, Faulkner and McCullers, amongst others, in the relationships they portray, in their lyrical interrogation of unusual experience, in their examination of the relationship between emotion and reason, and …
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Metacognitive poetics: Modernist reflections on the performance of thinking
… twentieth century, chapter one demonstrates how Wallace Stevens dramatizes human cognition as a musical, tense, and sensuous experience. Chapter two extends these themes of Stevnesian cognition by examining the implications of where Stevens locates his thinking. Chapter three focuses on the ways …
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Jinxed
… manuscript have appeared in journals such as The Wallace Stevens Journal, Talking River Review, and Passages North.
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Stevens After Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics
… as 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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Philosophical Sundials: Adorno and the Lyric
… philosophy alongside the wartime poetics of Wallace Stevens, paying special attention to Adorno’s famous dictum against poetry after Auschwitz. The third chapter attempts to outline the appearance of a paradoxical “inverse” theology at the heart of Adorno’s thinking by reading it through the …
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A poetics of listening: sound as distant diapason delight in the work of Susan Howe
… to Henry Thoreau, Jonathan Edwards, and Wallace Stevens, I examine Howe's affinity for an other mode of thinking that incorporates sensuous experience before (or in place of) a distillation of truth-content. In addition to these authors' approaches to sound, I explore the possibility of …
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
Focusing on the work of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Mina Loy, this thesis argues that late nineteenth-century decorative art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist artists and critics actively disavowed any decorative influence, I argue …
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THE COMIC DIMENSION: A NEW READING OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' LONG POEM "PATERSON"
… in the very fiction which associates him with Wallace Stevens. In Williams' final book, he turns the spotlight on himself as the father of a new generation of poets and the discoverer of a new American prosody.</p>
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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 VIOLENCE WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN THE NOVEL
… is to our apprehension of the world. Following Wallace Stevens, I define "reality" as an external pressure that constitutes a resistance to this basic activity of organization. A constant interplay of imagination and reality operates in perception and cognition, just as organic life is …
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Carving mass: to frame the center
… We live in the center of our awareness. Some of Wallace Stevens’ poetry explores the habits and the shape of consciousness. Consider these lines: I measure myself / Against a tall tree / I find that I am much taller / For I reach right up to the sun / With my eye / And I reach to the shore of the …
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The Aphoristic Moment: Modernist Literature and the Quotable Self
… who live by them. The following chapter, on Wallace Stevens, showcases a poet with many of the sympathies of James, yet one nonetheless captivated by that very aphoristic boundedness disparaged in James’s writing. Too often understood – even by those emphasising Stevens’s pragmatist …
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