Synopses & Reviews
From Paul Valéry to Julia Kristeva, the work of Stéphane Mallarmé has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century French culture. His texts have served as emblem and inspiration for successive generations of cultural theorists and practitioners. In Meetings with Mallarmé, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarmé's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory. By re-staging these textual encounters, the book demonstrates how the ghostly presence of Stéphane Mallarmé profoundly informed the projects of such key figures as Valéry, Lacan, Sartre, Derrida, Boulez, de Man, Bonnefoy, Kristeva, Blanchot and the Oulipo group. All quotations are translated.
Review
“Michael Temple is to be congratulated on an interesting project.” -
Journal of European Studies, March 1999
Journal of European Studies
Review
“Published during the centenary year of Mallarmés death, this collection of carefully thought-out literary and philosophical encounters brings together 10 innovative analyses. It is the process of cultural influence, quite as much as Mallarmés gloriously present oeuvre and persona that informs the incisive and fascinating contributions.” -
Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 7(3) 1999
Modern and Contemporary France
Synopsis
In Meetings with Mallarme, top scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom explore the significance of Mallarme's influence on major figures in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy, and literary theory.
Commissioned for the 1998 centenary of Mallarme's death, this collection analyzes invention as well as imitation, misreading as well as interpretation, identification as well as inspiration, and examines how this grave nineteenth-century poet has influenced the likes of Lacan, Sartre, Derrida, Boulez, Kristeva, and Blanchot.
Synopsis
From Paul Valery to Julia Kristeva, the work of Stephane Mallarme has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century French culture. His texts have served as emblem and inspiration for successive generations of cultural theorists and practitioners. In Meetings with Mallarme, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarme's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory. By re-staging these textual encounters, the book demonstrates how the ghostly presence of Stephane Mallarme profoundly informed the projects of such key figures as Valery, Lacan, Sartre, Derrida, Boulez, de Man, Bonnefoy, Kristeva, Blanchot and the Oulipo group. All quotations are translated.
Synopsis
In Meetings with Mallarm , top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarm 's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory.
About the Author
Michael Temple is a lecturer in French at Birkbeck College, London.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Michael Temple
Paul Valéry, Rachel Killick, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Leeds
Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles D. Minahen, Professor of French, Department of French and Italian, Ohio State University
Maurice Blanchot, Mike Holland, Lecturer in French, University of Oxford
Jacques Lacan, Malcolm Bowie, Professor of French, University of Oxford
Paul de Man, Rei Terada, Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Yves Bonnefoy, Clive Scott, Professor of French, University of East Anglia
Pierre Boulez, Kate Van Orden, Research Fellow, Columbia University
Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington, Professor of French, University of Sussex
Julia Kristeva, Patrick French, Lecturer in the Department of French, University College London
Oulipo, Burhan Tufail, Researcher, King's College, London