Wallace Stevens And The Apocalyptic Mode
Author | : Malcolm Woodland |
Publisher | : Iowa City : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2005-08 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015061179159 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Download or read book Wallace Stevens And The Apocalyptic Mode written by Malcolm Woodland and published by Iowa City : University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode focuses on Stevens' stance toward the apocalyptic past: his use of and resistance to apocalyptic language. It explores the paradoxical roles of apocalyptic and anti-apocalyptic rhetoric in modernist and postmodernist poetry and theory, particularly as these emerge in the poetry of Stevens and Jorie Graham.