Theodore De Banville Constructing Poetic Value in Nineteenth-Century France

Sommario

Introduction: Verse in an Age of Science and Industry 1. The Music and the Mechanism: Theorizing the Unanalysable 2. The Silent Music of the Stars 3. The Poetics of (Self-)Parody: Odes funambulesques 4. Bringing the Past to Life: Resuscitating Fixed Forms and the National Canon, or la cheville glorifiee 5. Epilogue: The Poetry Factory: On the Meaning of Form, from the Grands Rhétoriqueurs to the OuLiPo, via Dada

Info autore

David Evans

Riassunto

This book explores how Theodore de Banville's remarkably coherent body of verse theory and practice, shaped debates about poetic value and how to identify it during a period of aesthetic uncertainty caused by diverse social, economic, political and artistic factors.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Evans
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 14.07.2014
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese
• EAN: 9781909662346
• ISBN: 978-1-909662-34-6
• Numero di pagine: 322
• Categorie: French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Le Bon, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Clair de Lune, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Le Beau, la musique, Literary Modernity, Qui Ne, Grand Jeu, Je Ne, French poetic theory, verse form analysis, French verse theory in scientific context, aesthetic value debates, poetic tradition revival, De Son, Le Doux, De Sa, La Voie, Fixed Form, Ballade De, Dans Le, Le Vin, Genuine Poetry, Le Lionnais, Au Bois, La Ballade, Nineteenth Century French Poetry, Oi Se