“THE OUTLOOK THAT WOULD BE RIGHT.” WALLACE STEVENS’S CINEMATIC VISION
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Wallace Stevens, cinema, montage, painting, perception, modernism.Abstract
“The Outlook That Would Be Right.” Wallace Stevens’s Cinematic Vision. Drawing on the premise that a fundamental characteristic of modernist art is the convergence of various expressive and technical modes, this paper provides an examination of a selection of texts by Wallace Stevens in which the poetic vision and method intersect with the principles of cinematic montage, with a view to demonstrating the persistence throughout his oeuvre of a particular form of “sight”, employed for tackling a series of epistemological and aesthetic issues.
REZUMAT. “Perspectiva care ar fi potrivită.” Vederea cinematică a lui Wallace Stevens. Pornind de la premisa că o trăsătură fundamentală a artei moderniste constă în convergența unor variate moduri expresive și tehnice, în lucrarea de față ne propunem să examinăm un segment de texte din opera lui Wallace Stevens în care viziunea și metoda poetică se intersectează cu principiile montajului cinematografic, cu scopul de a demonstra prezența constantă în opera acestuia a unei forme specifice de “vedere”, utilizate în abordarea unei suite de probleme de natură epistemologică și estetică.
Cuvinte cheie: Wallace Stevens, cinema, montaj, pictură, percepție, modernism.
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