The Philosophic Background to Wallace Stevens' Early Poetry

dc.contributor.advisor	Traister, Barbara Howard
dc.contributor.author	Brown, Barry
dc.date.accessioned	2011-04-30T21:10:17Z
dc.date.available	2011-04-30T21:10:17Z
dc.date.issued	1973
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10920/21521
dc.description	104 p.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The author cites three main sources of influence: the theory of fictions Stevens appropriated from Santayana and from Vaihinger; the relational aesthetics of John Dewey and William James, which served as a link between the poet's aims and the various general aesthetic advances made by the early modern painters; and the cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead, which underlay his "naturalistic system," his formulations for the relations of soul and body, man and world, and the numerous expressions for what he considered the "valid purpose” of poetry to be, to give a sense of the freshness or vividness of life.	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Kalamazoo College English Senior Individualized Projects Collection
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Senior Individualized Projects. English.;
dc.rights	U.S. copyright laws protect this material. Commercial use or distribution of this material is not permitted without prior written permission of the copyright holder. All rights reserved.
dc.title	The Philosophic Background to Wallace Stevens' Early Poetry	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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