Unfolding Mallarme - The Development of a Poetic Art

Zusatztext Detailed scrutiny of individual poems... produces some excellent insights. Klappentext Unfolding Mallarme provides a coherent account of Mallarme's poetic developments from his earliest verse to his final masterpiece! "Un coup de Des." A series of close readings demonstrate the intricate linguistic and formal play to be found in many of his major poems; and! in a detailed analysis of "Un coup de Des!" Pearson explores the "profound calculation" upon which Mallarme's final! seemingly chaotic masterpiece is based. Zusammenfassung Unfolding Mallarme proposes new meanings in Mallarme's poetry and seeks to promote the development of his poetic art as a successful search for linguistic and textual mastery. This development is systematically traced from Mallarme's earliest verse through to `Un coup de Des', the radically innovative poem which was about to be published in a fine-art edition at the time of his untimely death in 1898. In a series of close readings, Roger Pearson examines Mallarme's poetic output up to and including the central `Sonnet en yx', which is discussed both in its earliest version and within the context of `Plusieurs sonnets'. These readings are followed by analyses of other major sonnets, of `Prose (pour des Esseintes)', and of `Un coup de Des' itself. The `profound calculation' on which Mallarme claimed to have based this seemingly random text is here unfolded in all its structural and semantic complexity.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Pearson, Roger (Fellow and Praelector in French Pearson, Pearson Roger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780198159179
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815917-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets