Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode

Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode

by Woodland, Malcolm

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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 be…

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  • Full title :Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode / Malcolm Woodland.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2005.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781587296024, 1587296020
  • oclc:ocm85790213
  • LC Classification:PS3537.T4753
  • Dewey Decimal:811/.52

Table of 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

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Subjects

Apocalypse in literature Apocalyptic literature Apocalyptic literature -- History and c… Criticism, interpretation, etc End of the world in literature Fin du monde dans la littérature Guerre dans la littérature History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American Literature and history Literature and history -- History -- 20… Littérature apocalyptique -- Histoire e… Littérature et histoire -- Histoire -- … POETRY -- American Stevens, Wallace United States War in literature

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Woodland, Malcolm

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