| Description |
x, 478 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The Critical cosmos series |
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Critical cosmos series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-465) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- François Villon, the misfit / Jefferson Humphries -- Marguerite de Navarre : the rhetoric of tears / Robert D. Cottrell -- Writing and drawing Scève's Délie / Elisabeth Guild -- Louise Labé and Pernette du Guillet : assimilation with a difference : Renaissance women poets and literary influence / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Du Bellay's emblematic vision of Rome / Daniel Russell -- Ronsard as Apollo : myth, poetry and experience in a Renaissance sonnet-cycle / Terence C. Cave -- Histoire d'oeuf : secrets and secrecy in a La Fontaine fable / Ross Chambers -- Lamartine / Georges Poulet -- Alfred de Vigny : mirror images in "La maison du berger" / Martha Noel Evans -- Babelic ruin, babelic "ebauche" : an introduction to a Hugolian problematic / Joan C. Kessler -- Victor Hugo : from spectacle to symbol / Margery Sabin -- Aloysius Bertrand : Gaspard de la nuit : prefacing genre / Richard Sieberth -- Gérard de Nerval : writing living, or madness as autiobiography / Shoshana Felman -- The mixture of genres, the mixture of styles, and figural interpretation : Sylvie, by Gérard de Nerval / Rodolphe Gasché -- Musset / Georges Poulet -- Théophile Gautier : art and the artist / Albert B. Smith -- Baudelaire : anthropomorphism and trope in the lyric / Paul de Man -- Baudelaire as modernist and postmodernist : the dissolution of the referent and the artificial "sublime" / Fredric Jameson -- Les fleurs du mal armé : some reflections on intertextuality / Barbara Johnson -- Reading as explication : Mallarmé's "Toast funèbre" / James Lawler -- Familiar and unfamiliar : Verlaine's poetic diction / Carol de Dobay Rifelj -- Corbière, Hélas! : a case of Antirayonnement / Robert L. Mitchell -- Surviving Lautréamont : the reader in Les chants de Maldoror / Robin Lydenberg -- Poetic doctrine in three of Rimbaud's verse poems / Marshall Lindsay -- Lettre I : the subject questioned / Karin J. Dilman -- Jules Laforgue : the ironic equilibrium / Warren Ramsey -- On time and poetry : a reading of Apollinaire / Dennis G. Sullivan. |
| Summary |
A collection of critical essays examining French poetry from the Renaissance through 1915. |
| Subject |
French poetry -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0877549974 alkaline paper $39.95 |
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