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From: Chicago Review
Date: 19970922
Author:Huddleston, Robert
Of Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster wrote that "she pushed the light of the English language a little further against the darkness." American modernist writers - and I am thinking specifically here of the territorialization of language by Wallace Stevens in such poems as "Anecdote of the Jar" - pushed ahead with the same project, founding a territory of civilized discourse in a large and diffuse national culture. Yet at some point in the recent past, the ordering and shaping "high culture" of modernism ceded to a raucous, chaotic counter-collective. A different "idea of order," to ...
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