Mallarmé S Children

Author : Richard Cándida Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520922727

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Mallarmé's Children by Richard Cándida Smith Pdf

In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cándida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. The symbolists found themselves in the midst of the transition to a world in which new media devoured cultural products and delivered them to an ever-growing public. Their goal was to create and oversee a new elite culture, one that elevated poetry by removing it from a direct relationship to experience. Instead, symbolist poetry was dedicated to exploring discourse itself, and its practitioners to understanding how language shapes consciousness. Cándida Smith investigates the intellectual context in which symbolists came to view artistic practice as a form of knowledge. He relates their work to psychology, especially the ideas of William James, and to language and the emergence of semantics. Through the lens of symbolism, he focuses on a variety of subjects: sexual liberation and the erotic, anarchism, utopianism, labor, and women's creative role. Paradoxically, the symbolists' reconfiguration of elite culture fit effectively into the modern commercial media. After Mallarmé was rescued from obscurity, symbolism became a valuable commodity, exported by France to America and elsewhere in the market-driven turn-of-the-century world. Mallarmé's Children traces not only how poets regarded their poetry and artists their art but also how the public learned to think in new ways about cultural work and to behave differently as a result.

Author : Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811215938

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A Tomb for Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé Pdf

An immensely moving poetic work addressing inconsolable sorrow: a father's pain over the death of his child. Bilingual.

Author : John Llewelyn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253214939

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Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas by John Llewelyn Pdf

"This is a book of scintillating intelligence, a book whose range of references, whose extraordinary ethical sensibility and linguistic creativity, set a standard for philosophy that few if any contemporary thinkers other than Derrida and Levinas themselves can match.... On every page, there is Llewelean sparkle." --David Wood If not simple opposition or simple juxtaposition, what is the relation between the writings to which Derrida and Levinas appose their signatures? What would each endorse in the writings of the other? What is it to sign and endorse? How does one assume responsibility, and how does one avoid assuming it? These are some of the probing questions that the prominent Continental philosopher John Llewelyn takes up in Appositions, which brings together and synthesizes 15 essays written during the past 20 years. This book by a powerfully original thinker and first-rate interpreter is essential reading for all those interested in the writings of Derrida and Levinas and in the ways in which their thinking intersects.

Author : Hélène Stafford
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Life in literature
ISBN : 9042013141

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Mallarmé and the Poetics of Everyday Life by Hélène Stafford Pdf

This book is concerned with the relocation of the concept of the ordinary within the works of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98). It engages with much of Mallarmé's oeuvre, concentrating on the textual features which reveal that, even in his most difficult texts, the ordinary as conceptual tool, as textual matter and as contemporary environment is never dismissed, but re-invented and invested with new and lively meaning. The instability of the concept in the texts, its qualities which range from the threatening to the immensely fertile make it a particularly rewarding area of study, against the background of a critical corpus which has in the past seen Mallarmé's work at best as unconcerned with ordinary life, at worst as irremediably removed from it. Here is presented for the first time a study of a metalanguage which appears surprisingly frequently in the Mallarmé corpus. The complex metaphorisation of the banal in Mallarmé's oeuvre, as well as the ideological discourse of the journalistic writings in their engagement with contemporary life are analysed and contribute to the demonstration of the existence within the corpus of an idealised ordinary world re-invented by the poet.

Author : Rosemary H. Lloyd
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501728211

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Mallarmé by Rosemary H. Lloyd Pdf

Upon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry and aesthetic theory. He also enjoyed an unparalleled reputation for extending help and encouragement to those who sought him out. Rosemary Lloyd has produced a fascinating literary biography of the poet and his period, offering a subtle exploration of the mind and letters of one of the giants of modern European poetry.Every Tuesday, from the late 1870s on, Mallarmé hosted gatherings that became famous as the "Mardis" and that were attended by a cross section of significant writers, artists, thinkers, and musicians in fin-de-siecle France, England, and Belgium. Through these gatherings and especially through a voluminous correspondence—eventually collected in eleven volumes—Mallarmé developed and recorded his friendships with Paul Valery, Andre Gide, Berthe Morisot, and many others. Attractively written and scrupulously documented, Mallarme: The Poet and His Circle is unique in offering a biographical account of the poet's literary practice and aesthetics which centers on that correspondence.

Author : Helen Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317175063

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Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé by Helen Abbott Pdf

As the status of poetry became less and less certain over the course of the nineteenth century, poets such as Baudelaire and Mallarmé began to explore ways to ensure that poetry would not be overtaken by music in the hierarchy of the arts. Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of these two important poets, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future of both poetry and music. Central to her analysis is the issue of 'voice', a term that remains elusive in spite of its broad application. Acknowledging that voice can be physical, textual and symbolic, Abbott explores the meaning of voice in terms of four categories: (1) rhetoric, specifically the rules governing the deployment of voice in poetry; (2) the human body and its effect on how voice is used in poetry; (3) exchange, that is, the way voices either interact or fail to interact; and (4) music, specifically the question of whether poetry should be sung. Abbott shows how Baudelaire and Mallarmé exploit the complexity and instability of the notion of voice to propose a new aesthetic that situates poetry between conversation and music. Voice thus becomes an important process of interaction and exchange rather than something stable or static; the implications of this for Baudelaire and Mallarmé are profoundly significant, since it maps out the possible future of poetry.

Author : Robert G. Cohn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111342436

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Mallarmé's Masterwork by Robert G. Cohn Pdf

Author : Andrew Kahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599827

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Mandelstam's Worlds by Andrew Kahn Pdf

Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of the Voronezh Notebooks, one of the supreme achievements of Russian poetry. This book considers the full political dimension of works that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of the revolution.

Author : Robert Boncardo
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474429542

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Mallarme and the Politics of Literature by Robert Boncardo Pdf

A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead's Process and Reality.

Author : Heather Williams
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039101625

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Mallarmé's Ideas in Language by Heather Williams Pdf

In this book, the author discusses the sheer improbability of Mallarmé's joint concern with concepts, or ideas, on the one hand, and with language as it behaves within the constraints of poetic convention on the other.

Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0859895629

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Meetings with Mallarmé by Michael Temple Pdf

In Meetings with Mallarme, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarme's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory.

Author : Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415967678

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For Anatole's Tomb by Stéphane Mallarmé Pdf

"In October 1879 Stephane Mallarme's eight-year-old son Anatole died after several months of illness. Mallarme (1842-1898), the great poet of French Symbolism, heir of Baudelaire and one of the founders of modern poetry, made notes towards a poem that was to become the Tombeau d'Anatole - Anatole's Tomb. The poem was never written, and Mallarme makes no reference to the project in his correspondence. When they were first published in French in 1961, the notes revealed a largely unknown side of Mallarme, which even now disturbs the idea of the poet of pristine impersonality and detachment. In the Tombeau d'Anatole he expresses his 'fury against the formless'; the consolations - and inconsolability - of bereavement."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles Mauron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Mallarmé by Charles Mauron Pdf

Author : David Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040029886

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Philosophers' Poets by David Wood Pdf

First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets and other distinctive writers. There are those, for example, who find in literary examples ways of exploring the concrete significance of philosophical assertions or distinctions. Others find in poetic discourse linguistic resources simply not available to philosophy, yet of vital importance to it. This is particularly true of philosophers of the limit, such as Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas and Adorno, for whom the very possibility of philosophy was in question. Despite the diversity of subjects covered, the collection maintains an integrity and identity. Above all, it shows how contemporary Continental philosophy raises the issue of philosophy and literature anew in a way that is appealing and challenging.

Author : Federico Ferretti,Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre,Anthony Ince,Francisco Toro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315307534

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Historical Geographies of Anarchism by Federico Ferretti,Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre,Anthony Ince,Francisco Toro Pdf

In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement. Its traditions, often hastily dismissed, are increasingly revealing insights which inspire present-day scholarship in geography. This book provides a historical geography of anarchism, analysing the places and spatiality of historical anarchist movements, key thinkers, and the present scientific challenges of the geographical anarchist traditions. This volume offers rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geographies with contributions from international leading experts. It also explores the historical geographies of anarchism by examining their expressions in a series of distinct geographical contexts and their development over time. Contributions examine the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their space and time, and the way this spirit continues to animate the anarchist geographies of our own, perhaps often in unpredictable ways. There is also an examination of contemporary expressions of anarchist geographical thought in the fields of social movements, environmental struggles, post-statist geographies, indigenous thinking and situated cosmopolitanisms. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in historical geography, political geography, social movements and anarchism.