02797nam 2200601 a 450 991082108480332120200520144314.01-58729-602-0(CKB)1000000000469969(EBL)843188(OCoLC)85790213(SSID)ssj0000268795(PQKBManifestationID)11954598(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268795(PQKBWorkID)10254315(PQKB)11192249(MiAaPQ)EBC843188(MdBmJHUP)muse9227(Au-PeEL)EBL843188(CaPaEBR)ebr10354456(EXLCZ)99100000000046996920040825d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode /Malcolm Woodland1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20051 online resource (277 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-928-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.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; IndexWallace 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 theLiterature and historyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryApocalyptic literatureHistory and criticismEnd of the world in literatureWar in literatureLiterature and historyHistoryApocalyptic literatureHistory and criticism.End of the world in literature.War in literature.811/.52Woodland Malcolm1958-1687369MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821084803321Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode4060770UNINA