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Aspect-Seeing and Stevens' Ideal of Ordinary Experience.
- Source :
- Wallace Stevens Journal; Spring2012, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p78-93, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- An essay is presented on Wallace Stevens' ideal of ordinary experience. It says that Stevens starts with contempt for ordinary life and repetition of temporality, but he realized that there is no escape from alienation and pseudo-heroics without balancing with everyday life. The author mentions that Stevens concept provides the context to develop second-order reflections on the construction of aspects.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01487132
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Wallace Stevens Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77411945
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2012.0011