Synopses & Reviews
The first comprehensive study of Mallarmé's "poetry of circumstance" in any language, this book is a companion volume to the author's well-received Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art. It provides a series of lucid and accessible readings of Mallarmé's verse and prose writings.
Synopsis
The first comprehensive study of Mallarmé's "poetry of circumstance" in any language, this book is a companion volume to the author's well-received Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art. It provides a series of lucid and accessible readings of Mallarmé's verse and prose writings.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Poet and the Reader
Part I: Intimate Galas
1. The Poet's Milieu
2. Creating Silence: 'Le Phénomène futur' and 'Un spectacle interrompu'
3. Reading Silence: Crayonné au théâtre
4. Breaking Silence: 'La Déclaration foraine'
5. Rhythms of Being
Part II: Circumstanzas
6. A Framework for Silence: Mallarmé and the Sonnet
7. The Silence of the Grave
8. The Silence of the Object
9. The Silence of the Image
10. Sotto voce
Conclusion: Silence and the Book
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