French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music
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Albert Mockel
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Baudelaire's Essay
Baudelaire’s Essay
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Critical Poem
cultural memory in literature
cygne
DE LA Vie
DE Son
Du Verbe
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Esthetic Experience
Fascist Turn
French Literary Fascists
French literary theory
Indivisible Totality
intertextuality studies
La Commune
La Musique
La Phalange
Le Cygne
Le Musicisme
les
Les Fleurs Du Mal
lettres
lyric tradition analysis
music and symbolism in French poetics
musique
nineteenth-century French poetry
paul
poetic discourse evolution
Prose Poem
Pure Poetry
Qui Ne
richard
Rst Quatrain
Symbolist Movement
verlaine
Vice Versa
wagner
Wagner Essay
Wagner's Music
Wagner's Text
wagners
Wagner’s Music
Wagner’s Text
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- ISBN 9781138375994
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Ghil, and Royère question the nature and function of the lyric through an ever-shifting set of intertextual and cultural contexts. Rather than focusing on 'musicality' in verse, the author addresses the consequences of choosing music as a site of dialogue with poetry. Acquisto argues that memory plays an under acknowledged yet vital role in these poets' rewriting of symbolist poetics. His reading of their interactions, and his focus on both major and neglected poets, exposes the myth of a small handful of 'great authors' shaping symbolism while a host of disciples propagated the tradition. Rather, Acquisto proposes, the multiplicity of authors writing and rewriting symbolism invites a dialogic approach to the poetics of the period. Moreover, music, as theorized rather than performed or heard, serves as a privileged mobile space of poetic creation and dialogue for these poet-critics; it is through engagement with music, supposedly the purest or most abstract of the arts, that one can retrace the textual and cultural transformations accomplished by the symbolist tradition. By extension, these poets' rethinking of poetics is an occasion for present-day critics to re-examine assumptions, not only about the intersections of music and poetry and our understanding of symbolist poetics but also about the role that the aesthetic implicitly plays in the creation, preservation, or reshaping of cultural memory.
Joseph Acquisto is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont, USA.
