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Subject(s)

• Mallarmé, Stéphane 1842-1898—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• French poetry—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• French literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Theoria incognita [More in this series]

Summary note

The name of Mallarmé has long been the banner of the avant-gardes in their fight for the radical autonomy of the poetic work: no author, no ordinary language, no commitment! There is, however, in Mallarme's case, an idea of ​​literature that is evading his modernist embrace. The one who for a long time thought "withdrawn at the top of his tower" was a thinker of poetic action. By playing a radical and sometimes fierce demystification of literature against all essentialism, he measured the powers of poetry with lucidity and pragmatism. If he has committed any belief in fiction, he has done so in a decided, happy, ambivalent way.To re-read his texts and to grasp the astonishing theoretical topicality is to understand what our new critical horizon today allows us to love and think of literature.--Fabula.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction : l'existence littéraire
• La crise des lettres
• Le ravissement du poète
• "La pièce principale ou rien"
• L'apparition du poète
• Le "double état"
• Le poète et la "foule"
• Les paradoxes de la "disparition élocutoire"
• La critique du poète maudit
• Le "poète dissimulé"
• Les prestiges du poème
• "A quoi sert cela ?"
• Fonctions de la poésie
• Le poète et la fiction
• Mensonges, mystifications, sortilèges
• La crise de la poésie
• La poésie, entre le mythe et la fiction
• Paroles de vie, paroles de mort
• Les mots des autres
• Le mystère d'un nom
• Le portrait du poète
• Mallarmé l'impersonnel
• "Quand bien même il n'en existerait rien".

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ISBN

9782916120898 (pbk.) :

OCLC

1011552592

RCP

H - O

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