Wallace Stevens’s use of narrative markers in <i>Harmonium</i>
In this article Wallace Stevens’s first published volume of poetry, “Harmonium” is examined in order to demonstrate that by his deployment of narrative markers in key poems of the collection his quintessentially modernist lyrics challenge the restrictive figurative range of hegemonic enlightenment c...
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| description | In this article Wallace Stevens’s first published volume of poetry, “Harmonium” is examined in order to demonstrate that by his deployment of narrative markers in key poems of the collection his quintessentially modernist lyrics challenge the restrictive figurative range of hegemonic enlightenment cultural theory and practice. In so doing I advance the argument of my article on Sidney’s sonnet sequence which suggests that awareness of strategic rhetorical figuration leads to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between lyric and narrative. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2aa614ebaf7d4153b0bc8017b5cd9b9c2022-12-22T01:06:02ZafrAOSISLiterator0258-22792219-82372010-07-0131316118010.4102/lit.v31i3.6349Wallace Stevens’s use of narrative markers in <i>Harmonium</i>J. Gouws0Research Unit for Languages & Literature, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West UniversityIn this article Wallace Stevens’s first published volume of poetry, “Harmonium” is examined in order to demonstrate that by his deployment of narrative markers in key poems of the collection his quintessentially modernist lyrics challenge the restrictive figurative range of hegemonic enlightenment cultural theory and practice. In so doing I advance the argument of my article on Sidney’s sonnet sequence which suggests that awareness of strategic rhetorical figuration leads to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between lyric and narrative.https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/63AllegoryHarmoniumModernismRhetorical FiguresSilva TraditionWallace Stevens |
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| title | Wallace Stevens’s use of narrative markers in <i>Harmonium</i> |
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| title_short | Wallace Stevens’s use of narrative markers in <i>Harmonium</i> |
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