Wallace Stevens In Theory

Introduction: The Pure Good of Theory

Thomas Gould and Ian Tan

I Reading Stevens

Theorizing Almost Successfully

Lisa M. Steinman

The Reader In/Of Stevens

Ariane Mildenberg

The Event in Stevens as Poetic Justification: Alain Badiou, Poetic Performativity and the Implied Reader

Ian Tan

II Theory and Form

Stevens's Queer Ecologies

Bart Eeckhout

The Pursuits of Philosophy and the Sounds of Poetry: Stevens and Heidegger

Wit Pietrzak

Stevens, Adorno and the Worldly Poetics of Lyric Unworlding

Zachary Tavlin

III Experience and Affect

Wider Than the Sky: Stevens, Consciousness and the Incipient Cosmos

Kathryn Mudgett

What Stevens's Poetry can offer to Theorists of Consciousness

Charles Altieri

'Emotionally We Arrive all the Time': Stevens and Affect Theory

Marta Figlerowicz

IV Theology and Post-Theology

From Philosophy to Theology: Stevens's Angel and the Real

Stephen Sicari

Two Cathedrals: Stevens and George Santayana's Sonnet Exchange

Kelly MacPhail

The The: Stevens's Neighborliness

Thomas Gould

V Postures and Dispositions

'A war between the mind and the sky': Fictions, Fools, and the Consequences of Empire

Johanna Skibsrud

Damned Universal Cock: Stevens?s Ecstatic Present

Rachel Trousdale

A Collect of Style

Krzysztof Ziarek