The poetic of gaiety: Wallace Stevens's theories of the imagination

This thesis examines Stevens's evolving Modernist poetic: his thinking, both in poems and in explanatory prose, about the nature of poetic creativity, about the uses of language, and about the cultural function and value of poetry (what he called its 'gaiety'). The method adopted is two-fold: 1) an examination of the ways in which Stevens transformed Romantic and Symbolist poetic tradition, incorporating (often in a significantly modified form) concepts developed by Valery, Mauron, Focillon, Nietzsche, Whitehead, and Planck; 2) an assessment of the consequences of that incorporation for a critical understanding of poems written during each stage of his career. The thesis will trace the process by which concept becomes figure in the making of the poem, and is then reconceptualized in the act of reading. The thesis consists of four lengthy chapters, each divided into subsections. Chapter 1 considers Stevens's critics, and their understanding of the philosophical basis of his poetic. Chapter 2 discusses Stevens's conversion of the Romantic concept of joy from a privileged power of vision to the intensified power of abstraction and intensified play of language envisaged by Valery. Chapter 3 assesses Stevens's 'scientism' (his use of Mauron, Focillon and others) as an attempt to extend and strengthen the cultural claims of poetry, and compares it to that of contemporary poets like Eliot, Pound and Williams. Chapter 4 assesses Stevens's interest in Nietzsche's concept of gay science as an attempt to resolve the problem of belief in modern poetry

A gis-based approach for dialect boundary studies

For linguists, up to now drawing language boundaries has usually been problematic. This paper aims to present a way by which GIS and linguistic methodology are integrated, especially in the area of dialect geography, to help improve the quality of boundary drawing. Applied methodological flow with the exemplified application to the whole of Thailand is illustrated and discussed. Resultant maps are promising and so is the role of GIS as an essential tool for assisting linguists to better demarcate and interpret the language borders with more confidence, particularly in ambiguous areas

A phonological study of the Thai language of Suphanburi Province

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The location of manufacturing industry in Thailand 1972-1976

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The regulation of Id2 protein expression in macrophages

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