Alan Filreis

Biographic Data

ID680896
NAMEAlan Filreis
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEFilreis
SIGNATUREFILREIS A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX0

  • Alan Wald - Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade

    Open AccessAlan FilreisARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…2007

    Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method

  • The Red Decade and the Blue Guitar

    Brian Mchale, Alan Filreis et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1997

  • Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism

    David H Hesla, Alan FilreisARTICLEAmerican Literature1996

  • Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things

    Bonnie Costello, James Longenbach et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1992

  • Wallace Stevens and the Actual World

    Glen Macleod, Alan FilreisARTICLEAmerican Literature1992

  • Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literature

    Alan Filreis, William W BevisARTICLEAmerican Literature1990

  • Still Life without Substance: Wallace Stevens and the Language of Agency

    Alan FilreisARTICLEPoetics Today1989

    Because it closely associates modern poetry and modern painting, the challenging thesis that we can place relation before substance as the basis of similarity (Steiner 1982) calls for energetic testing. Beginning such a test, we move with new competence past the descriptive poem, a work that places itself in relation to a thing or scene as if having painted it. This is the familiar case of the poem talking like a painting while otherwise conventi…

  • Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory: Conceiving the Supreme Fiction

    Alan Filreis, B J LeggettARTICLEAmerican Literature1988

    Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954. The author offers new readings of a number of poems and passages and clarifies certain controversial conceptions developed by Stevens, such as the supreme fiction, the relation of the new poet to tradition, and the psychologies of creativity. Originally published in 198…

  • Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and Jose Rodriguez Feo

    Milton J Bates, Beverly Coyle et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1987

    The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's most exciting correspondent. The two shared a Harvard education, both were anxious to see Stevens translated for a Cuban audience, and each had an enduring admiration for Santayana, whose awareness of the cultural tensions between the Northern and Southern hemispher…

  • "Words with "All the Effects of Force: Cold-War Interpretation

    Open AccessAlan Filreis, Peter L Steinberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1987

    PETER STEINBERG'S THE GREAT 'RED MENACE TELLS THE STORY OF THE 1949 SMITH Act trial of leaders of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), which culminated in the 1951 Dennis v. United States decision. In that decision the Supreme Court upheld Judge Harold Medina's ruling that the First Amendment certainly does not extend to those who conspire to advocate the violent overthrow of the American government. The exposition is brilliant: Stei…

  • Forms of Farewell: The Late Poetry of Wallace Stevens

    Alan Filreis, Charles Berger et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1985

  • Wallace Stevens and the Strength of the Harvard Reaction

    Alan FilreisARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1985

    BY the time Wallace Stevens arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1897, considerable minority of the faculty of Harvard College felt uneasy teaching under Charles W. Eliot's long regime of liberal reform (1869-1909). seat of Unitarian optimism and untroubled positivism, Eliot's Harvard had ratified and acclaimed an easy truce between Protestantism and science. Charles Eliot Norton, the patrician art historian, Dante scholar, and cou…

  • Wallace Stevens and the Crisis of Authority

    Alan FilreisARTICLEAmerican Literature1984

    THE most difficult month in life of Wallace Stevens was March of I90I. His journal entries of that year reveal a depressed, extremely lonely and easily tired young man. From June I900 when he left Harvard, to summer of i90i, he worked as a journalist for several daily and weekly newspapers. During this year his journal is dominated by what Samuel French Morse accurately calls the struggle between practical and poetic.' At times Stevens denounced …