In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancière, 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, Stéphane Mallarmé. Ranciere presents Mallarmé 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. Mallarmé
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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ISBN
9781441179104
Publisert
2015
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Continuum
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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