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Interview: Karen Stevens on characterisation, class and ‘Brilliant Blue'
No full textJoe Bedford interview series 'Writers on Research'. Author Karen Stevens discusses the research process behind her short story collection Brilliant Blue (Barbican Press, 2025)
The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
No full textPhDThe thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological conception of the 'play' of art, an interactive existence overlooked by Kant. Through the ‘play’ of Stevens’ poems the reading audience are implicated in their reduction to being. The origin of this conception leads Gadamer back to Parmenides who Stevens had read. I argue that Stevens’ poetry ‘plays’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of how the language and form of Stevens’ poems attempt to reduce mind and world to concepts that parallel Parmenides’ poetic sense of being, and Heraclitus’ notion of becoming, the thesis uncovers the ground in which Stevens attempts a reconnection with the ‘thing-in-itself’. It is through the experience of reconnecting to an ontological centre, which his poetry presents as the human project, that Stevens’ poetry also presents itself as a means of replacing religion.From here we turn to Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida for an exposition of how such a reduction reduces the ‘Other’ to ‘otherness’ and their worry that this reduction legitimates violence within the thought of Martin Heidegger and Parmenides. From this I make a case for how such reductions are connected to what I refer to as 'the play of violence' in Stevens' poetry, and to refer this violence back to the mythology Stevens' poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics’
Letters to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, from C.H. Stevens 3 Jan 1896 - 4 Feb 1900
No full textLetters to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, from C.H. Stevens 3 Jan 1896 - 4 Feb 1900 thanking him for a letter of introduction to Deakin, sending Clark a book on prominent American legal men and institutions, his visit to India, advising Clark when to visit America, American political life, congratulations on Clark's successes. Written from Adelaide, Bombay and U.S.A.
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Andrew Stevens during production of THE FURY, 1978
No full textAndrew Stevens during production of THE FURY, 1978. Color photographic print
John Stevens Wade Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter presenting the book Gallery for the Maine Author Collection and a lengthy typed biographical sketch of the author C.J. Stevens, contributed as John Stevens Wade, his pseudonym
068. Frock coat owned by Simon Stevens of Ephraim, Utah
No full textPhotograph of and document for a frock coat owned by Simon Stevens of Ephraim, Utah. Made in South Africa, date unknown; probably belonged to Andrew Kelson (1853-1896) of Ephrai
The Role of Thaddeus Stevens in Andrew Johnson\u27s Impeachment Trial
No full textThe role played by Representative Thaddeus Stevens in Andrew Johnson\u27s impeachment trial marked the culmination of a personal vendetta conducted by both almost from the day of Johnson\u27s inauguration. Stevens, civil rights advocate and friend of the oppressed Negro, had far different conceptions of right and wrong than did Andrew Johnson, friend of the oppressed Southern poor white. Stevens fought for the maintenance of civil rights for the Negro, while Johnson labored to prevent widespread bloodshed in the South during the early phases of Reconstruction. The inevitable clash which resulted cast Thaddeus Stevens in a major role in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
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