The Crisis of French Symbolism / / Laurence Porter.

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 Symboli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1990
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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