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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793992103321

Autore

Porter Laurence

Titolo

The Crisis of French Symbolism / / Laurence Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©1990

ISBN

1-5017-4617-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages)

Disciplina

841/.70915

Soggetti

French poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Symbolism (Literary movement) - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Crisis of French Symbolism -- 2. Mallarme's Disappearing Muse -- 3. Verlaine's Subversion of Language -- 4. Baudelaire's Fictive Audiences -- 5. Artistic Self-consciousness in Rimbaud's Poetry -- Conclusion: Beyond Symbolism -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging traditional histories of the nineteenth-century French lyric, Laurence Porter maintains that from 1851 to 1875 Symbolism constituted neither a movement nor a system, but rather represented a crisis of confidence in the powers of poetry as a communicative act. The Crisis of French Symbolism offers a provocative reinterpretation of the four acknowledged masters of Symbolist poetry: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé.