You might also like

More about Unfolding Mallarme

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 355 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Unfolding Mallarme proposes new meanings in Mallarme's poetry and seeks to promote the development of his poetic art as a successful search for linguistic and textual mastery. This development is systematically traced from Mallarme's earliest verse through to 'Un coup de Des', the radically innovative poem which was about to be published in a fine-art edition at the time of his untimely death in 1898. In a series of close readings, Roger Pearson examines Mallarme's poetic output up to and including the central 'Sonnet en yx', which is discussed both in its earliest version and within the context of 'Plusieurs sonnets'. These readings are followed by analyses of other major sonnets, of 'Prose (pour des Esseintes)', and of 'Un coup de Des' itself. The 'profound calculation' on which Mallarme claimed to have based this seemingly random text is here unfolded in all its structural and semantic complexity.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Unfolding Mallarme
• Subtitle: The Development of a Poetic Art
• Author: Roger Pearson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780198159179
• ISBN: 019815917X
• ID: 04522338
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 664 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 156 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. November 1996

Trending among others

---

---

---