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"Wallace Stevens And The New York School", Alan Filreis Dec 2011

"Wallace Stevens And The New York School", Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

The essay explores cross-influences between Wallace Stevens and the New York School aesthetic.


Selecting Three Poems By W. Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion, Alan Filreis Feb 2010

Selecting Three Poems By W. Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

Three poems by Stevens indicate a particular aesthetic predicament, expressions of near-cessation: "Mozart, 1935," "The Man with the Blue Guitar," and "The Plain Sense of Things." In the third poem, the imagination re-emerges at precisely the point of its termination. In the second, the poet ventures into pure sound just when an ideological model for the poem collapses. In the first, the poem is the result of a dodge on the matter of others' pain.


Sound At An Impasse, Alan Filreis Feb 2010

Sound At An Impasse, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

This brief paper presents six reasons why studies of sound in the poetry and poetics of Wallace Stevens have been delayed or suppressed.


Modernist Pedagogy At The End Of The Lecture: It And The Poetics Classroom, Alan Filreis Dec 2009

Modernist Pedagogy At The End Of The Lecture: It And The Poetics Classroom, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

Describes a modernist pedagogy based on the end of the lecture as we know it and a convergence of poetics, universities and the rise of digital media.


Stevens In The 1930s, Alan Filreis Dec 2006

Stevens In The 1930s, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

An overview of Wallace Stevens' poetic response to radical poets and ideas in the American 1930s.


Tests Of Poetry, Alan Filreis Jan 2003

Tests Of Poetry, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

Contribution to a forum convened by Robert von Hallberg to consider literary history as a method applied to poetry & poetics.