Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century

Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century PDF Author: Robert Greer Cohn
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637951
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).

Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century

Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century PDF Author: Robert Greer Cohn
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637951
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).

Collected Poems

Collected Poems PDF Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268148
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire. Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.

The Book as Instrument

The Book as Instrument PDF Author: Anna Sigrídur Arnar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226027012
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Anna Sigrídur Arnar explores how the book became a stretegic site for encouraging a modern public to actively partake in the creative act, an idea that informed later 20-century developments such as conceptual and performance art.

Mallarmé in Prose

Mallarmé in Prose PDF Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214513
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
A number of sections are devoted to Mallarme's great magazine of wit and opinion, La Derniere Mode, or The Latest Fashion, every page of which he wrote himself under various pseudonyms of both genders.

Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé

Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé PDF Author: Mary Lewis Shaw
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271075538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarmé, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake. Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarmé perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore as ideal forms of ritual through which to supplement and celebrate poetic texts. She focuses on previously unexplored references to supplementary, extratextual performances in four of Mallarmé's major poetic texts—Herodiade, L'après-midi d'un faune, Igitur, and Un coup de des—revealing the consistent formal expression of his original conception of literature's relationship to the performing arts. Shaw then discusses Mallarmé's monumental project, Le Livre, a metaphysical book designed to be performed in a series of ritual celebrations. She analyzes and describes the intrinsic structure and contents of this unfinished work as the fullest realization of the text-performance relationship elaborated throughout Mallarmé's corpus. Shaw offers Le Livre as a prototype of avant-garde performance, drawing important parallels between Mallarmé's literary experimentation and crucial developments in twentieth-century arts.

Collected Poems

Collected Poems PDF Author: Sta1/2phane Mallarma1/2
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520207110
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"Weinfield's versions are superb--true miracles, I believe--and give us the flavor of Mallarme's work for the first time."--Paul Auster, Editor, The Random House Book of 20th-Century French Poetry

Total Expansion of the Letter

Total Expansion of the Letter PDF Author: Trevor Stark
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0262043718
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé. At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this “linguistic turn,” centered on the radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde movements. Major cubists and Dadaists—including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Tristan Tzara—appropriated bureaucratic paperwork, newspapers, popular songs, and advertisements, only to render them dysfunctional and incommunicative. In doing so, Stark argues, these figures contended with the utopian vision of the late nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who promised a “total expansion of the letter.” In his poems, Mallarmé claimed, “the act of writing was scrutinized down to its origins.” This scrutiny, however, delivered his work into an indeterminate zone between mediums, social practices, and temporalities—a paradox that reverberates through Stark's wide-ranging case studies in the history of the avant-garde. Stark examines Picasso's nearly abstract works of 1910, which promised to unite painting and writing at the brink of illegibility; the cubists' “hope of an anonymous art,” expressed in newspaper collages and industrial colors; the collaborative, cacophonous invention of “simultaneous poems” by the Dadaists in Zurich during World War I; and Duchamp's artistic exploration of chance in gambling and finance. Each of these cases reflected the avant-garde's transformative encounter with the premise of Mallarmé's poetics: that language—the very medium of human communication and community—is perpetually in flux and haunted by emptiness.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose PDF Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208239
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.

Divagations

Divagations PDF Author: StŽphane MallarmŽ
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, StŽphane MallarmŽ, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, MallarmŽ's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If MallarmŽ captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-sicle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from ValŽry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as MallarmŽ arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Whether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, MallarmŽ remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.

The Book

The Book PDF Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878972422
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: probably his most famous pronouncement is 'everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.' The Book was Mallarme's total artwork, a book to encompass all books. Frequently quoted, sometimes excerpted, but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction, the scaffolding of a cosmic architecture intended to reveal 'all existing relations between everything.'