Nineteenth-century French poetry : introductions to close reading
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Nineteenth-century French poetry : introductions to close reading
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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19th-century French poetry
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Bibliography: p. 256-258
Includes index
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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 Mallarme 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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Christopher Prendergast
- 2. The poem as hypothesis of origin: Lamartine's Le Lac Eric Gans
- 3. The rhetoric of contemplation: Hugo's La Pente de la reverie Victor Brombert
- 4. The designs of prosody: Vigny's La Mort du loup Clive Scott
- 5. The lyric persona: Nerval's El Desdichado Rae Beth Gordon
- 6. Under-reading at noon: Leconte de Lisle's Midi Mary Ann Caws
- 7. Intertextuality and interpretation: Baudelaire's Correspondances Jonathan Culler
- 8. Questions of Metaphor: Gautier's La Nue Christopher Prendergast
- 9. Training for modernity: Verlaine's Le Paysage dans le cadre des portieres ... Ross Chambers
- 10. Sylleptic Symbols: Rimbaud's Memoire Michael Riffaterre
- 11. Poetry and cliche: Laforgue's L'Hiver qui vient Peter Collier
- 12. Genius at nightfall: Mallarme's Quand l'ombre menace de la fatale loi ... Malcolm Bowie
- 13. Appendix - French versification: a summary Clive Scott
- References and suggestions for further reading.
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