Mallarmé Wagner Music And Poetic Language

Author : Heath Lees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351559485

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Mallarmé Wagner: Music and Poetic Language by Heath Lees Pdf

This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarm mission to 're-possess' music on behalf of poetic language. Traditionally, this view focused on only the last fifteen years of the poet's life, and sprang from a belief in Mallarm 'sudden awakening' to music during an all-Wagner concert in Paris, in 1885. Professor Heath Lees shows that Mallarm early knowledge and experience of music was much greater than commentators have realized, and that the French poet actually began his writing career with the explicit aim of making music's performance-language of 'effect' the ground of his poetic expression. Integral to the argument is Mallarm reaction to the work and ideas of Richard Wagner, whose impact on France came in two waves: the first broke during the tempestuous 1860s days of the Paris Tannher, while the second arrived in the mid-1880s, and gave birth to the Revue Wagnenne. In refuting the critical literature that focuses on only the second of these waves, Lees shows that Mallarmxhibited a highly informed Wagnerian background during the first wave, and that his grasp of the composer's gestural motives and flexible musical prose led him towards a new kind of self-expressive, gestural rhythm that aimed musically to reinvent poetic language. In support of this, the book examines closely what Wagner 'really' said in the prose works that were becoming known in Paris by the 1860s, in particular, Wagner's important French text, the Lettre sur la musique. It also re-examines Baudelaire's classic Wagner-brochure, and reveals its author's surprisingly firm grasp of Wagner's musico-poetic fusion. In musically informed commentary, Professor Lees surveys the four decades of success and failure that resulted from Mallarm repeated attempts to draw out the musical gestures and resonances of words alone. In the process, he throws new light on many of Mallarm best-known texts, hitherto judged 'difficult' by those who have failed to

Author : Heath Lees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351559478

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Mallarm?nd Wagner: Music and Poetic Language by Heath Lees Pdf

This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarm? mission to 're-possess' music on behalf of poetic language. Traditionally, this view focused on only the last fifteen years of the poet's life, and sprang from a belief in Mallarm? 'sudden awakening' to music during an all-Wagner concert in Paris, in 1885. Professor Heath Lees shows that Mallarm? early knowledge and experience of music was much greater than commentators have realized, and that the French poet actually began his writing career with the explicit aim of making music's performance-language of 'effect' the ground of his poetic expression. Integral to the argument is Mallarm? reaction to the work and ideas of Richard Wagner, whose impact on France came in two waves: the first broke during the tempestuous 1860s days of the Paris Tannh?er, while the second arrived in the mid-1880s, and gave birth to the Revue Wagn?enne. In refuting the critical literature that focuses on only the second of these waves, Lees shows that Mallarm?xhibited a highly informed Wagnerian background during the first wave, and that his grasp of the composer's gestural motives and flexible musical prose led him towards a new kind of self-expressive, gestural rhythm that aimed musically to reinvent poetic language. In support of this, the book examines closely what Wagner 'really' said in the prose works that were becoming known in Paris by the 1860s, in particular, Wagner's important French text, the Lettre sur la musique. It also re-examines Baudelaire's classic Wagner-brochure, and reveals its author's surprisingly firm grasp of Wagner's musico-poetic fusion. In musically informed commentary, Professor Lees surveys the four decades of success and failure that resulted from Mallarm? repeated attempts to draw out the musical gestures and resonances of words alone. In the process, he throws new light on many of Mallarm? best-known texts, hitherto judged 'difficult' by those who have failed to

Author : David Hillery
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011361170

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Music and Poetry in France from Baudelaire to Mallarmé by David Hillery Pdf

The book assesses the influence of music on the ideas and poetic practice of a number of late nineteenth-century poets. Particular attention is paid to the effect that the musical model supposedly had on the traditional ways of writing poetry, especially in the key areas of rhythm, sound-repetition and imagery. The chapters on Baudelaire and Mallarme relate their ideas on music to their more general theories of art and poetry and at the same time provide a suitable framework for a critical and evaluative discussion of the Symbolist poets' contribution to the music-poetry debate in the 1880s and 1890s."

Author : Dr Helen Abbott
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475392

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Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé by Dr 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 : Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015069375668

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Divagations by Stéphane Mallarmé Pdf

"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarmé's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If Mallarmé captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-siècle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from Valéry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as Mallarmé arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Whether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, Mallarmé remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.

Author : Mary Breatnach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037488387

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Boulez and Mallarmé by Mary Breatnach Pdf

This is a study of one of the most distinguished artistic encounters of our age. Through a study of an undisputed highpoint in post-war music, Boulez's Pli Selon Pli, the author demonstrates the importance of this relationship in the context of contemporary European culture and argues that the originality and significance of the piece itself are inseparable, not only from the poetry, but, more particularly, from the literary thinking which inspired it.

Author : Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804723850

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Musica Ficta by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Pdf

This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). It is difficult today to realize how profoundly Wagner affected the cultural and ideological sensibilities of the nineteenth century. Wagnerism rapidly spread throughout Europe, partly because of Wagner's propagandizing talent and the zeal of his adherents. But the main reason for his ascendance was the sudden appearance of what the century had desperately tried to produce since the beginnings of Romanticism - a work of art on the scale of great Greek and Christian art. Finally, here it was, the secret of what Hegel called the "religion of art" rediscovered. The first two scenes of the book, contemporary with the European triumph of Wagnerism, inscribe themselves in a historical sequence that is punctuated by the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, in which the universal unbridling of nations and classes is prefigured. The second two register certain effects of Wagnerism that are not just ideological but make themselves felt in a new political configuration that solidifies a confusion between the "national" and the "social." Art and politics are both at play here, but as neither a politics of art nor, even less, an art of politics. Instead, what is at stake, more gravely, is the aestheticization, the figuration, of the political. The four scenes frame and clarify the "true scene" that sanctioned Nietzsche's rupture with Wagner, the major philosophical event that Heidegger, in1938, said it was imperative to understand as a turning point in Western history.

Author : Jane Kyle Brumage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025635462

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Mallarmé and Music by Jane Kyle Brumage Pdf

Author : Austin Clarkson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822036334688

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Current Musicology by Austin Clarkson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433061581413

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M'lle New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : French language
ISBN : UCBK:C094026516

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Nottingham French Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louis Marvick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484313

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Waking the Face That No One Is by Louis Marvick Pdf

Poetry and music have seldom been more closely associated than at the end of the nineteenth century, and the texts in which Baudelaire and Wagner, Mallarmé and Scriabin, Maeterlinck and Debussy evoked the reader’s and the listener’s states of mind are unusually rich in suggestion. Can poetry combine, as music seems to do, the transcendent satisfaction of an all-inclusive viewpoint with the excitement and uncertainty of an unfolding narrative? Can it partake of music’s power in order to give a face to the idea, and substitute, without disappointing, a definite variation for the ineffable theme? Symbolist writers intent on achieving musical effects in words looked for ways to overcome the hard division of subjects at the foundation of language, and the strategies they invented, while not always successful, show their supreme expectations concerning the receptive capability of their audience and an unqualified belief in the transforming power of their art. Students of aesthetics, of French and comparative literature should find something of interest in this provocative and original book. For ease of reference, a detailed abstract of the contents is provided, along with English translations of all quotations in other languages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : French literature
ISBN : UVA:X004001831

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Australian Journal of French Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129060781

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Symbolism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dominique D. Fisher
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010515240

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Staging of Language and Language(s) of the Stage by Dominique D. Fisher Pdf

Staging of Language is a reassessment of Mallarmé's poetics that demonstrates how Mallarmé and Artaud redefine the traditional frontiers of the arts and literature. Focusing on the relation Mallarmé establishes between language, sketches, musicality and virtual theater, Dominique Fisher reveals a new Mallarmé whose poetics cannot be defined simply within the framework of blanks and silence. She demonstrates how Mallarmé's quest for non-verbal modes of representation of poetic language initiates a definite revolution in the treatment of poetry and theater in the modern period. Her analysis of Artaud's language of signs adds new dimensions to his search for a poetic construction of space. The book also presents central statements about the evolution of poetics and semiology.