03108nam 2200649 a 450 991082478450332120200520144314.01-282-86020-897866128602010-7735-6991-X10.1515/9780773569911(CKB)1000000000244999(OCoLC)756606886(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119920(SSID)ssj0000283423(PQKBManifestationID)11236612(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283423(PQKBWorkID)10247967(PQKB)11065133(CaPaEBR)400048(CaBNvSL)gtp00521333(Au-PeEL)EBL3330509(CaPaEBR)ebr10132690(CaONFJC)MIL286020(OCoLC)929120582(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/32m6wd(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400048(MiAaPQ)EBC3330509(DE-B1597)656990(DE-B1597)9780773569911(MiAaPQ)EBC3243553(EXLCZ)99100000000024499920040519d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading Nelligan /Emile J. Talbot1st ed.Montreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20021 online resource (232 pages)Includes index.0-7735-2479-7 0-7735-2318-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.Front Matter --Contents --Bibliographical Note --Introduction --To Be a Poet --Spirituality and Sensuality --The Poetics of Failure --The Poetics of Melancholy and Nostalgia --Conclusion: Nelligan and Decadence --Notes --Works Cited --IndexÉmile Nelligan (1879-1941) wrote all of his poetry as an adolescent, before spending four decades in a psychiatric asylum. Considering all of Nelligan's work and using a largely textual approach, Émile Talbot points out the Canadian roots of Nelligan's originality. He argues that these are discernable despite Nelligan's use of the discourse of nineteenth-century continental French poetry, particularly that of the Parnassians and the Decadents. Talbot's textual analysis is integrated with a consideration of the social, cultural, artistic, and religious climate of both late nineteenth-century Montreal and the European literary culture to which Nelligan was responding. Talbot considers such pertinent factors as the spirituality of guilt, the role of the mother, and a societal context that rejected both the revelation of the self and the autonomy of art. In doing so he sheds new light on Nelligan's use of European poetic language to fashion a poetry marked by his own culture.841/.912Talbot Emile1681664MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824784503321Reading Nelligan4051210UNINA