Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. “The Theory of Life”: Wallace Stevens, Gilles Deleuze, and the Difference They Make 13
7. “The Novel That Took the Place of a Poem”: Stevens and Queer Discourse 37
8. “No Place Like Home”: Stevens and Contemporary American Fiction 74
9. “Both Sides and Neither”: Stevens, Masculinity, and American Film 112
10. Stevens and New York School Poetry in the Distance 158
11. “The Play between the Spaces”: Stevens and Psychoanalysis 195
12. Conclusion: Diva-Dames in the Dark 229
13. Notes 247
14. Works Cited 265
15. Index 283