TY - BOOK AU - Boncardo,Robert TI - Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière T2 - Crosscurrents : CROSS SN - 9781474429528 AV - PQ2344.Z5 B533 2018 U1 - 841.8 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - French poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Introduction: Comrade Mallarmé --; 1. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Mallarmé: Hero of an Ontological Drama, Agent of the Counter-revolution --; 2. Julia Kristeva’s Mallarmé: From Fetishism to the Theatre-Book --; 3. Alain Badiou’s Mallarmé: From the Structural Dialectic to the Poetry of the Event --; 4. Jean-Claude Milner’s Mallarmé: Nothing Has Taken Place --; 5. Jacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: Deferring Equality --; Conclusion: From One Siren to Another --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Recounts the radical readings of Mallarmé’s seminal poems by some of France’s most important 20th century thinkersWhy is Stéphane Mallarmé, one of modernity’s most ingenious yet obscure poets, so important to French philosophers? With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo situates Mallarmé within these thinkers' philosophical and political projects.Key FeaturesExplains different thinkers' distinct approaches to Mallarmé’s poetry and prose, in particular to their political significanceReflects on the various ways literature has been conceived of politically by French thinkersThe first work of English-language scholarship on each of these thinker’s reading of Mallarmé and the first work to read each of these thinkers in tandem, locating their points of contact and difference UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474429542 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474429542/original ER -