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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet

This dissertation focuses upon Fredric 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 favour...

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Main Author: Engels, Ryland
Other Authors: Higgins, John
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Language:English
Published: Department of English Language and Literature 2014
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description This dissertation focuses upon Fredric 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 universality over the Romantic individualism that is typical of Modernist poetry in English.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10440 Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet Engels, Ryland Higgins, John English Language and Literature This dissertation focuses upon Fredric 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 universality over the Romantic individualism that is typical of Modernist poetry in English. 2014-12-28T20:08:43Z 2014-12-28T20:08:43Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10440 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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title_short Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
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