TY - BOOK AU - Caws,Mary Ann AU - Acquisto,Joseph AU - Admussen,Nick AU - Antoon,Sinan AU - Barda,Jeff AU - Caws,Mary Ann AU - Delville,Michel AU - Deming,Richard AU - Domina,Lynn AU - Fredman,Stephen AU - Gwiazda,Piotr AU - Israel-Pelletier,Aimée AU - LeRud,Lizzy AU - Lloyd,Rosemary AU - Mehl,Scott AU - Miller,Alyson AU - Monroe,Jonathan AU - Monson,Jane AU - Murphy,Margueritte S. AU - Rosenthal,Adam R. AU - Santilli,Nikki AU - Wagstaff,Emma TI - The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem T2 - Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities SN - 9781474462747 AV - PN1059.P76 E35 2021 U1 - 809.103 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Prose poems KW - History and criticism KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474462754 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474462754 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474462754/original ER -