John C Stout

Objects Observed

The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501570
• ISBN-10: 1487501579
• Artikelnr.: 47973674

Autorenporträt

John C. Stout is an associate professor in the Department of French at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

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