A Poverty of Objects : : The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre / / Jonathan Monroe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Monroe, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The prose poem, Jonathan Monroe asserts, is the genre that does not want to be itself. In his view, the dominant literary historical role of the prose poem has been to test the limits of generic constraints. Monroe here undertakes a comparative and historical investigation of the problematic relationship between prose and poetry and of the development of the prose poem over the past two centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Prose Poem as a Dialogical Genre -- PART I. Two Precursors -- CHAPTER 1. Universalpoesie as Fragment: Friedrich Schlegel and the Prose Poem -- CHAPTER 2. Novalis's Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre -- PART II. The Prose Poem in Its Heroic Age -- CHAPTER 3. Baudelaire's Poor: The Petits poemes en prose and the Social Reinscription of the Lyric -- CHAPTER 4. Narrative, History, Verse Undone: The Prose Poetry of Rimbaud -- PART III. The Prose Poem in the Age of Cubism -- CHAPTER 5. History as Farce: (Re)Situating Max Jacob's Cornet à deś -- CHAPTER 6. The Violence of Things: The Politics of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons -- PART IV. The Other Side of Things -- CHAPTER 7. Self-Reflexive Fables: Emst Bloch's Spuren -- CHAPTER 8. Fragments of a World Restored: Francis Ponge's "Rhetoric by Objects" -- PART V. Beyond French Borders: Two Contemporaries -- CHAPTER 9. Politics and Solitude: The Prose Poetry of Robert Bly -- CHAPTER 10. Time Doesn't Pass: Helga Novak and the Possibilities of the Prose Poem -- CHAPTER 11. Conclusion: Uses of the Prose Poem -- Frequently Cited References -- Index