In the early 1930s, the Soviet artist Aleksandr Deineka began to paint canvases that were
more legible and naturalistic than his overtly modernist, montage-like and industrial …

Wallace Stevens," Imagination as Value" n 1949, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. noted that creasingly
difficult to articulate a vital cent ating the conflict between autonomy and s to structure the …

In his Poets of Reality (Cambridge, 1965), Hillis Miller demon-strates how Wallace Stevens,
beginning with his" Comedian as the Letter C"(CP 27),* gave up traditional-Romantic …

The only book to cover the evolution of one of the most important areas of philosophy The
birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason. But as science …

Stevens and Ideas 24I read about-Plato, Kierkegaard, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Coleridge, IA
Richards, Pascal, Cassirer, AJ Ayer. He read Hegel (L, p. 390); and as the three references …

The challenge of reviewing six books together is that of discerning a pattern, a common
subject or sensibility that will, in the ideal case, herald the birth of a new and hitherto …

" I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a
political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable. Typically, aesthetic …

Scottish literature since the 1960s has inherited–but also been critical of–earlier native
traditions of thought, which find their most salient expression in the Enlightenment and the …

The Experiments of WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood with the verse play are centered
in the nineteen-thirties and, in every instance, reveal the political and social preoccupation …