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almahu_9947414978302882
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ISBN:
9780511554001 (ebook)
Content:
This volume of essays, written by scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry. Each of the eleven essays, on different poets from Lamartine to Mallarmé and Laforgue, focuses on the detailed organisation of a single poem. The method of close reading has been adopted in order to effect an introduction to the analysis of the 'basics' of poetic language (sound, metre, syntax, etc.), and in order to explore and illustrate some of the claims and arguments about poetry arising from developments in the prevailing literary theory. Theoretical positions are posed and tested in the terms of practical analysis and interpretation. Christopher Prendergast's introduction to the volume situates the essays in a series of general perspectives and contexts, and Clive Scott has provided an appendix on French versification.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The poem as hypothesis of origin : Lamartine's 'Le lac' / Eric Gans -- The rhetoric of contemplation : Hugo's 'La pente de la rêverie' / Victor Brombert -- The designs of prosody : Vigny's 'La mort du loup' / Clive Scott -- The lyric persona : Nerval's "El desdichado" / Rae Beth Gordon -- Under-reading at noon : Leconte de Lisle's 'Midi' / Mary Ann Caws -- Intertextuality and interpretation : Baudelaire's 'Correspondances' / Jonathan Cutler -- Questions of metaphor : Gautier's 'La nue' / Christopher Prendergast -- Training for modernity : Verlain's 'Le paysage dans le cadre des portières ... ' / Ross Chambers -- Sylleptic symbols : Rimbaud's 'Memoire' / Michael Riffaterre -- Poetry and cliché : Laforgue's 'L'hiver qui vient' / Peter Collier -- Genius at nightfall : Mallarmé's 'Quand l'ombre menaça de la fatale loi ... ' / Malcolm Bowie.
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Print version: ISBN 9780521345415
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554001
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