Objects Observed - The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America

Informationen zum Autor John C. Stout is an associate professor in the Department of French at McMaster University. Klappentext Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction One: The Object In Modernism In The United States And France Two: Cubism And The Poetry Of The Object: Pierre Reverdy’s Aesthetics Of Impersonality Three: The Text As Object: Francis Ponge’s Verbal Still Lifes Four: Description As Transfiguration: Jean Follain’s (Meta)Poetics Of The Object Five: The Object As (M)other: Guillevic’s Poetry And Object-Relations Theory Six: Jean Tortel’s Poetics Of The Desiring Gaze Seven: L’objet apres l’objet: Contemporary French Poetry Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: John Stout, John C Stout, John C. Stout, John Cameron Stout
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2018
• EAN: 9781487501570
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0157-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies