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The "final finding of the ear": Wallace Stevens' modernist soundscapes

The "final finding of the ear": Wallace Stevens' modernist soundscapes
The "final finding of the ear": Wallace Stevens' modernist soundscapes
Explores the question of why Stevens invested so much belief in a cosmology of sound, and discusses how the poet uses sound patterns to create reflexive, metapoetic effects, especially in 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction'
sound, music, reflexive, poem, wallace stevens, susan howe
0148-7132
61-82
Middleton, Peter
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Middleton, Peter
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Middleton, Peter (2009) The "final finding of the ear": Wallace Stevens' modernist soundscapes. Wallace Stevens Journal, 33 (1), 61-82.

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Explores the question of why Stevens invested so much belief in a cosmology of sound, and discusses how the poet uses sound patterns to create reflexive, metapoetic effects, especially in 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction'

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Published date: May 2009
Keywords: sound, music, reflexive, poem, wallace stevens, susan howe
Organisations: English

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Local EPrints ID: 79381
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79381
ISSN: 0148-7132
PURE UUID: 96603d50-aecd-4a8c-905b-2b595d486fc2

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 00:29

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