Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode / Malcolm Woodland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodland, Malcolm, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and history.

Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.

Apocalyptic literature.

End of the world in literature.

War in literature.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation.

Stevens, Wallace.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Knowledge--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode focuses on Stevens's doubled stance toward the apocalyptic past: his simultaneous use of and resistance to apocalyptic language, two contradictory forces that have generated two dominant and incompatible interpretations of his work. The book explores the often paradoxical roles of apocalyptic and antiapocalyptic rhetoric in modernist and postmodernist poetry and theory, particularly as these emerge in the poetry of Stevens and Jorie Graham. This study begins with an examination of the textual and generic issues surrounding apocalypse, culminating in the

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I; Chapter 1: Past Apocalypse; Chapter 2: An Ever-Enlarging Inchoherence; Chapter 3: What Could Not Be Shaken; Part II; Chapter 4: The Refuge That the End Creates; Chapter 5: Mournful Making; Part III; Chapter 6: Past Apocalypse, Past Stevens; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.

ISBN:

9781587296024

1587296020

OCLC:

85790213