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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451616603321

Autore

Woodland Malcolm <1958->

Titolo

Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode [[electronic resource] /] / Malcolm Woodland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005

ISBN

1-58729-602-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

811/.52

Soggetti

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

Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism

End of the world in literature

War in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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