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The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem / Michel Delville, Mary Ann Caws.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the HumanitiesPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 3 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474462747
  • 9781474462754
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.103 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1059.P76 E35 2021
  • PN6110.P82 E35 2021eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Origins and Beginnings -- 1 The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France -- 2 Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud’s Artful Authenticity -- 3 Novalis’ HYMNEN AN DIE NACHT and the Prose Poem AVANT LA LETTRE -- 4 Thyrsus and Palimpsest: De Quincey’s Influence on Baudelaire’s LE SPLEEN DE PARIS -- 5 A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the FIN DE SIÈCLE -- Part II Visual Mediations -- 6 Cubism and the Prose Poem -- 7 The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art -- 8 The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem -- Part III Genres and Discourses -- 9 The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Microgenres -- 10 The Prose Poem and the Antinovel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute’s TROPISMES -- 11 Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem -- 12 Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson -- Part IV Issues and Contexts -- 13 An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem -- 14 Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry -- 15 Grzegorz Wróblewski’s KOPENHAGA and the Process of Inscription -- 16 The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of Chinese SANWENSHI -- 17 The SANBUNSHI (Prose Poem) in Japan -- 18 The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq -- 19 After Poet’s Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse -- 20 “Prose in Prose” in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography -- Index -- Plates
Summary: A collection of original essays providing critical, international and cross-disciplinary approaches to the prose poemProvides the first international and comparative approach to the prose poemIncludes chapters on non-Western avatars of the genreCovers the history of the prose poem from Baudelaire to presentThe first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre’s hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre’s transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Origins and Beginnings -- 1 The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France -- 2 Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud’s Artful Authenticity -- 3 Novalis’ HYMNEN AN DIE NACHT and the Prose Poem AVANT LA LETTRE -- 4 Thyrsus and Palimpsest: De Quincey’s Influence on Baudelaire’s LE SPLEEN DE PARIS -- 5 A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the FIN DE SIÈCLE -- Part II Visual Mediations -- 6 Cubism and the Prose Poem -- 7 The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art -- 8 The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem -- Part III Genres and Discourses -- 9 The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Microgenres -- 10 The Prose Poem and the Antinovel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute’s TROPISMES -- 11 Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem -- 12 Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson -- Part IV Issues and Contexts -- 13 An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem -- 14 Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry -- 15 Grzegorz Wróblewski’s KOPENHAGA and the Process of Inscription -- 16 The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of Chinese SANWENSHI -- 17 The SANBUNSHI (Prose Poem) in Japan -- 18 The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq -- 19 After Poet’s Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse -- 20 “Prose in Prose” in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography -- Index -- Plates

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A collection of original essays providing critical, international and cross-disciplinary approaches to the prose poemProvides the first international and comparative approach to the prose poemIncludes chapters on non-Western avatars of the genreCovers the history of the prose poem from Baudelaire to presentThe first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre’s hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre’s transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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