Objects Observed : : The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America / / John C. Stout.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Pilot 2017
• VerfasserIn: Stout, John C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes these poets with a catalyst for creating a new poetics and for reflecting on lyric as a genre. In France, the object has been central to a broad range of aesthetic practices, from the era of Cubism and Surrealism to the 1990s. In the heyday of American Modernism, several major poets foregrounded the object in their work; however, in postwar twentieth-century America, poets moved away from a focus on the object. Objects Observed illuminates the variety of aesthetic practices and positions in French and American poets from the years of high Modernism (1909-1930) to the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Object In Modernism In The United States And France -- 2. Cubism And The Poetry Of The Object: Pierre Reverdy'S Aesthetics Of Impersonality -- 3. The Text As Object: Francis Ponge'S Verbal Still Lifes -- 4. Description As Transfiguration: Jean Follain'S (Meta)Poetics Of The Object -- 5. The Object As (M)Other: Guillevic'S Poetry And Object-Relations Theory -- 6. Jean Tortel'S Poetics Of The Desiring Gaze -- 7. L'Objet Après L'Objet: Contemporary French Poetry -- Conclusion: Two Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index