Patrick McGuinness

Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siecle France

From Anarchism to Action Francaise

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de si¿e France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Beginning with Mallarm¿nd ending with Maurras, it focuses on radical politics of the left and right and 'avant-garde' poetries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831167
• ISBN-10: 0198831161
• Artikelnr.: 54470973

Autorenporträt

Patrick McGuinness is the author or editor of several academic books, including Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (OUP, 2000), Symbolism, Decadence and the fin de siècle (Exeter UP 2001), and T. E. Hulme, Selected Writings (Carcanet, 1998). He is also the author of two books of poems (The Canals of Mars, 2004, and Jilted City, 2010), a novel, The Last Hundred Days (Seren/Bloomsbury, 2011, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Wales Book of the Year, and the Author's Guild Award for Fiction), and a memoir, Other People's Countries (Jonathan Cape, 2014, winner of the 2014 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize). The Last Hundred Days in its French translation (Grasset, 2013) won the Prix du premier roman étranger.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Poetry, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism
1: The Language of Politics in Symbolist and Decadent Polemic
2: Symbolism and Literary Anarchism
3: Symbolists and Anarchists
4: The École romane: An arrière-garde within the avant-garde
5: Reactionary Poetics: Maurras and the École romane
Afterword
Selective Bibliography
Index