Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 568 g
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 568 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-815944-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This book explores the expressive resources peculiar to French verse, first through formal discussion of its poetics and then through detailed readings of texts from the seventeenth century to the present. At the same time, it offers a reassessment of the nature of the reading process itself, and makes a case for rescuing a sense of the complex modalities of language from the pressure to interpret. Reading is, above all, the experience of language, and of the self through language, and we should seek ways of preserving these kinds of experience, even though the conventions of critical discourse militate against them. Part Two presents a sequence of thirteen readings (including texts by La Fontaine, Chénier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Éluard, Césaire). These readings are grouped according to a set of underlying preoccupations --- formal, acoustic, rhythmic, narratological, etc. --- and each group is prefaced by an introductory discussion of the particular aspect highlighted.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Note on the Text
- Introduction: About Reading
- PART I: THE POETICS OF FRENCH VERSE
- 1: French Verse: Definitions and Critical Issues
- 2: The Reading of Verse
- PART II: STUDIES IN READING
- 3: Poetry and the Fixed [François de Malherbe, `Sur la mort de son fils'; Stéphane Mallarmé, Rondels]
- 4: Poetry and the Acoustic [Charles Baudelaire: `Parfum exotique'; Paul Valéry, `Le Sylphe']
- 5: Poetry and the Graphic [Blaise Cendrars, `Académie Médrano'; Guillaume Apollinaire, `Cur couronne et miroir']
- 6: Poetry and the Rhythmic [André Chénier, `Quand au mouton bêlant la sombre boucherie'; Alphonse de Lamartine, `Milly ou la terre natale'; Arthur Rimbaud, `Larme']
- 7: Poetry and the Narrative [Jean de La Fontaine, `Le Loup devenu Berger'; Alfred de Vigny, `La Colère de Samson']
- 8: Poetry and the Free [Paul Éluard, `Le Baiser'; Aimé Césaire, `Ode à la Guinée']
- Bibliographical References
- Index
