Poetics Studies Papers Copyright (c) 2013 University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved. http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers Recent documents in Poetics Studies Papers en-us Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:03:30 PST 3600 Words with "All the Effects of Force: Cold-War Interpretation http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/10 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/10 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:22:38 PDT A review of two books about cold-war prospecutions of communists becomes an essay on free speech, academia, literary intention and cold-war interpretation of language.

]]> Alan Filreis articles/essays Stevens in the 1930s http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/8 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/8 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:22:37 PDT An overview of Wallace Stevens' poetic response to radical poets and ideas in the American 1930s.

]]> Alan Filreis book chapters Tests of Poetry http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/9 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/9 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:22:37 PDT Contribution to a forum convened by Robert von Hallberg to consider literary history as a method applied to poetry & poetics.

]]> Alan Filreis articles/essays Review of "Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic" http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/7 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/7 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:22:36 PDT Review of a book of essays about Wallace Stevens and Europe, edited by Bart Eeckhout and Edward Ragg, published by Macmillan in 2008.

]]> Alan Filreis reviews Review of Leggett, Wallace Stevens & Poetic Theory http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/6 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/6 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:22:35 PDT Alan Filreis reviews Review of Forms of Farewell by Charles Berger http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/5 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/5 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:22:34 PDT Alan Filreis reviews Still Life without Substance: The Poetics of Agency http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/4 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/4 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:38:20 PST A historical semiotic reading of poems Wallace Stevens wrote out of his relationship with French agents for the acquisition of paintings.

]]> Alan Filreis Selecting Three Poems by W. Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/3 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/3 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:58:24 PST 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.

]]> Alan Filreis The Stevens Wars http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/2 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/2 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:05:50 PST This paper surveys the responsiveness of contemporary poets to the writings of Wallace Stevens in the period between 1975 and the present.

]]> Alan Filreis Sound at an Impasse http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/1 http://repository.upenn.edu/poetics_papers/1 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:09:55 PST This brief paper presents six reasons why studies of sound in the poetry and poetics of Wallace Stevens have been delayed or suppressed.

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