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Between the Written and the Oral in Contemporary Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Quasha (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468296 |
| OpenAlex | W2316868189 |
| Language | EN |
B UCKMINSTER FULLER formulating a law of modification: Heisenberg said that observation alters the phenomenon observed. T. S. Eliot said that studying history alters history. Ezra Pound said that thinking in general alters what is thought about. Pound's formulation is the most general, and I think it's the earliest. Quoted by Hugh Kenner in The Pound Era, and extended: To think of Pound in that way alters Pound. There is always discursive feedback because we communicate with the objects of our attention, and the quality of attention determines the quantity of communication. How conscious can we be of our contribution to world transformation? At
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| Highly cited | No |
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