This is the first English translation of Ranciere's study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stephane Mallarme. Ranciere presents Mallarme as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarme is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding and delicate poetics that is itself responding to an exceptional awareness of the complexity of an historical moment as well as the role that poetry ought to play in it.
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A study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. It presents Mallarme as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written.
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Foreword; 1. The Foam of Verse; i. The White Preoccupation; 2. The Poetics of Mystery; i. The Terms of Mystery; ii. The Scene of Dream; iii. From Nothingness to Nothing; iv. Method of Fiction; v. The Fan's Poem; 3. Hymns of the Spiritual Chorus; i. The Religion of the Century; ii. Two Theses on Divinity; iii. The Poet and the Worker; iv. Musical Religion; v. Wagner the God: Poem, Music and Politics; 4. The Duty of the Book; i. The Poem as Thought: A Secular History; ii. Music, Dance, Poem: The Circle of 'Mimesis'; iii. The Authentic Page; Selection of Texts; Index.
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ISBN
9780826419750
Publisert
2011-03-10
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Continuum Publishing Corporation
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198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
05, UP
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
112
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