TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balakian,Anna Elizabeth
TI  - The Fiction of the Poet: In the Post-Symbolist Mode 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691608174
AV  - PN1271 .B36 2014 
U1  - 809.1/915809.1915 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE. Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO. A Serial Approach --; CHAPTER THREE .The Fictions of Mallarmé --; CHAPTER FOUR. Valéry and the Imagined Self --; CHAPTER FIVE. Rilke and the Unseizable --; CHAPTER SIX. Yeats and the Symbolist Connection --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Stevens and the Symbolist Mode --; CHAPTER EIGHT Jorge Guillén: His Battle with the Crystal --; CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned the poetry of language from Mallarm, compensated for the disappearance of metaphysical inclinations in early twentieth-century poetry by instituting a poetic fiction. Balakian finds the immersion of the "I" and its altered reflection in the work of art to be a common feature of their poetry, and explores how they replaced the conventional meaning of signifiers grown stale, such as the abused word "poet," which became musician, artist, dancer, acrobat, mime, tapestry weaver, rider of the earth and the skies. In the works of these poets, the symbol evolved into a selective system of communication that identified implicitly the realms of human dilemma in regard to time, space, place, and reality in an indifferent universe. Balakian explains how the poets made language posit the major problems of existence and survival through metaphors of transition and, with the polysemy of their discourse, spoke to each reader on his or her terms. Like a serial musical composition, this literary interpretation interweaves leitmotifs from one writer to another, creating a basic cohesion while revealing variations and transformations in their poetry.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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