Joseph Acquisto

French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

What were the roles of music and memory in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? Why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in which major figures Baudelaire and Mallarmé and neglected poets Ghil and Royère question the nature and function of the lyric.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351935661
• Artikelnr.: 47955678

Autorenporträt

Joseph Acquisto is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Baudelaire in Wagner's forests, or the persistence of the lyric
Mallarmé and the spectacle of musical poetry
René Ghil and Stéphane Mallarmé between Crise de Vers and the Traité du Verbe
Performing the ends of symbolism with Jean Royère
Conclusion: literary history and the invention of symbolism
Notes
Works cited
Index.