In "Discourse in the Novel," Mikhail Bakhtin tells us that "Every discourse presupposes a special conception of the listener, of his apperceptive background and the degree of his responsiveness." My study of Wallace Stevens's poetry examines Stevens's "conception of the listener"—in the form of his intratextual readers, their responsiveness, and the shapes that responsiveness takes—and attempts to formulate out of that examination Stevens's theory of reading embodied in his canon of poems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc279030 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Hobbs, Michael B. (Michael Boyd) |
| Contributors | Cairns, Scott, Kesterson, David B., 1938-, Tanner, James T. F., McGregor, Kent M. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 322 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Hobbs, Michael B. (Michael Boyd) |
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