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

• Autore: Woodland Malcolm <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.52
• Soggetto topico: Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century; Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism; End of the world in literature; War in literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode
• ISBN: 1-58729-602-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821084803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II