Singing Spaces: Fractal Geometries in Cole Swensen's "Oh."
Cole Swensen's homage to opera, "Oh," opens with the word scale; this essay examines how scale figures in the thinking about art performed by the volume. The minimalism of "Oh" refigures the extravagant grandeur of opera, as part of Swensen's rethinking of scale. Swensen uses the lens of fractal geo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 136 - 161 |
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Fall2007
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