MLA Commons | Jeffrey Blevins | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jblevins/activity/ Activity feed for Jeffrey Blevins. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:12:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8364fc41c2d4053b5ac8b8ea38df3237 Jeffrey Blevins's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1914894/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:13:55 -0400 0 a8dae52b40ef5a0158464bff45dce8f1 Jeffrey Blevins's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889542/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:52:20 -0400 0 8555a3f15ff16b79180ae405fe0a38b0 Jeffrey Blevins deposited How Stevens Uses the Grammar of Is in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843412/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:31:22 -0400 Wallace Stevens and philosophy of language

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]]> 0 12bed4cfc4375791025cf2df42b8e61f Jeffrey Blevins deposited Pound Sign in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843401/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:28:33 -0400 What can one, seemingly insignificant figure–possibly punctuation mark, possibly ideogram, possibly something else entirely–demonstrate about Ezra Pound’s figurative practice? #, which draws power from associations with Mencius’s well-field system and the Chinese character ching, becomes an emblem for a recurring quodlibet in The Cantos: how for…[Read more]

]]> 0 f24762332263930df6fefb4fc4e0d9f0 Jeffrey Blevins deposited Pound Sign in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843400/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:28:09 -0400 What can one, seemingly insignificant figure–possibly punctuation mark, possibly ideogram, possibly something else entirely–demonstrate about Ezra Pound’s figurative practice? #, which draws power from associations with Mencius’s well-field system and the Chinese character ching, becomes an emblem for a recurring quodlibet in The Cantos: how for…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b3713f437b6cefd697990430bb64de7 Jeffrey Blevins deposited Absolutism, Relativism, Atomism: The “small theories” of T.S. Eliot in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843399/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:27:49 -0400 Philosophy began the 1890s rooted firmly in the monistic absolutism of F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart; it ended the decade deracinated into the pluralistic atomism espoused by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. If this intellectual sea change can be conceived as analytic and logical philosophies inventing their wheel, then T.S. Eliot re-invented…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ac5c052c09b09e5ec3de9b0bbd86a49 Jeffrey Blevins deposited Absolutism, Relativism, Atomism: The “small theories” of T.S. Eliot in the group English Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843398/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:27:45 -0400 Philosophy began the 1890s rooted firmly in the monistic absolutism of F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart; it ended the decade deracinated into the pluralistic atomism espoused by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. If this intellectual sea change can be conceived as analytic and logical philosophies inventing their wheel, then T.S. Eliot re-invented…[Read more]

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]]> 0 62f34bf8a3dcc2cad5e384f7671e5af5 Jeffrey Blevins deposited Pound Sign https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842981/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:48:29 -0400 What can one, seemingly insignificant figure–possibly punctuation mark, possibly ideogram, possibly something else entirely–demonstrate about Ezra Pound’s figurative practice? #, which draws power from associations with Mencius’s well-field system and the Chinese character ching, becomes an emblem for a recurring quodlibet in The Cantos: how for…[Read more]

]]> 0 de3b2d8880d5580be22b7a97aad729fa Jeffrey Blevins deposited Absolutism, Relativism, Atomism: The “small theories” of T.S. Eliot https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842980/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:45:17 -0400 Philosophy began the 1890s rooted firmly in the monistic absolutism of F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart; it ended the decade deracinated into the pluralistic atomism espoused by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. If this intellectual sea change can be conceived as analytic and logical philosophies inventing their wheel, then T.S. Eliot re-invented…[Read more]

]]> 0 380450d410b94556959dd7d4c528dbfd Jeffrey Blevins deposited Setting The Waste Land in Order https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842979/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:41:48 -0400 Are T. S. Eliot’s notes on The Waste Land a scholarly resource or a literary hoax? This oft-repeated question gets to the heart of the poem, which thrives on its allusions, whether seriously or cynically. However, scholars have largely passed over the notes’ (and the poem’s) numberings, despite their complexity and superabundance—a panoply of quan…[Read more]

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