“Commingled souvenirs and prophecies”: the hybrid reality of Stevens’s Aesthetic Ecology of Mind
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- William R. Lowry (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Hephzibah Roskelly
Abstract: Combining close readings that highlight structural techniques Wallace Stevens uses to lead readers to see the world through his imagination with historical/biographical information and scholarship that provides context for their production, publication and content, I study how Wallace Stevens's, "The Poems of Our Climate," "Dutch Graves in Bucks County," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War" rely on rhetorical/aesthetic strategies characteristic of hybridity to complete his subsumption of reality into the ecosystem of the imagination. The results of my investigation reveal Stevens's rhetorical/aesthetic use of the characteristics of hybridity allow him to use the failures and successes of tradition and both skepticism and faith in the positivist present as tools whereby he can fulfill his aim of having readers experience the ways these poems take form in his mind. In other words, with the aid of these hybrid rhetorical/aesthetic strategies, Stevens strives to pull off a feat of telepathy through the medium of poetry and recreate the images and questions about knowing he experiences in his own mind in the mind of readers.
“Commingled souvenirs and prophecies”: the hybrid reality of Stevens’s Aesthetic Ecology of Mind
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2015
- Keywords
- Dutch Graves in Bucks County, Ecology of Mind, Examination of the Hero in a Time of War, Hybridity, The Poems of our Climate, Wallace Stevens
- Subjects
- Stevens, Wallace, $d 1879-1955. $t Poems. $k Selections $x Criticism and interpretation
- American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism