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Stéphane Mallarmé
This concise biography of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) blends an account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. \"A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet,\" he declared at the age of twenty-two--but wh.
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Arthur Rimbaud
\"Before he had turned twenty one, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) had upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud's poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity, and exploration. Written for general readers and students of literature alike, Arthur Rimbaud presents the original damed poet who continues to captivate readers, artists and writers all over the world.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A. Mary F. Robinson
Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed
to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century
Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at
home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French.
Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels. This literary
biography integrates Robinson's unorthodox life with her
development as a writer across genres. Best known for her poetry,
Robinson was also a respected biographer, history writer, travel
writer, and contributor of reviews and articles to the Times
Literary Supplement for nearly forty years. She had a romantic
friendship with the writer Vernon Lee and two happy - and celibate
- marriages. Her salons in London and Paris were attended by major
literary and artistic figures, and she counted amongst her friends
Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Gaston Paris,
Ernest Renan, and Maurice Barrès. Reflecting a decade of research
in international archives and family papers, A. Mary F.
Robinson reveals the extraordinary woman behind the popular
writer and critically acclaimed poet.
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Impersonal Belongings: Annie Ernaux’s Poetics of Chiffonnage
Contemporary French author Annie Ernaux makes salvaging, recycling, and defying obsolescence into a materialist poetics. Ernaux aligns her textual collages with a late-capitalist incarnation of the Parisian ragpicker. The overlap of the two main tropes in Ernaux’s oeuvre, the axis of reminiscence (embodied here mainly in the works The Years and A Girl’s Story ) and the axis of everyday experience in late capitalistic Paris and its suburbs ( Exteriors , Things Seen ), assemble into a poetics of chiffonnage . In both axes, residues of the everyday are recycled into writing, an effort that reframes the tradition of ragpicking from its context in nineteenth-century Paris into a discourse of waste and recycling.
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Genius Envy
In Genius Envy Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten past: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.” Despite the efforts of leading thinkers, critics, and historians to erase women from the pages of literary history, Paliyenko shows how female poets invigorated the debate about the origins of genius and garnered recognition in their time for their creativity and bold aesthetic ideas. This fresh account of French women poets’ contributions to literature probes the history of their critical reception and considers the texts of celebrated writers such as Desbordes-Valmore, Ségalas, Blanchecotte, Siefert, and Ackermann. The results show that these women explicitly challenged the notion of genius as gendered, advocating for their rightful place in the canon.
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