“Is This the Real Life or is This Just Fantasy”: Imagination and Reality in Stevens' "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction"

• Main Author: Lum, Hannah Wan Ling
• Other Authors: Kevin Andrew Riordan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70732
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In “Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction” (Notes), Wallace Stevens suggests that because we engage with our experiences in our minds, our experiences and our belief in them is thus fictitious due to our flawed perceptions. The “supreme fiction” is then something that is the fundamental ideal of our belief...