Blue Order: Wallace Stevens's Jazz Experiments.
Wallace Stevens, one of America's most recognizable modernist poets, separated himself from social, political, cultural, and even aesthetic milieus of the modernist era. His aloofness notwithstanding, modern tenets such as meditations on reality, debates about culture, and experimentation with music...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 100 - 118 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Indiana University Press
Winter2009
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