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Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé

Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé

Lübecker, Nikolaj

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 83

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 1802070125
ISBN13: 9781802070125
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 1 2022
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Twenty-First-Century Symbolism was the winner of the 2023 R. Gapper Book Prize.

How do the writings of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé speak to our time? Why should we continue to read these poets today? How might a contemporary reading of their poetry differ from readings delivered in previous centuries? Twenty-First-Century Symbolism argues that Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé prefigure a view of human subjectivity that is appropriate for our times: we cannot be separated from the worlds in which we live and evolve; human beings both mediate and are mediations of the environments we traverse and that traverse us, whether these are natural, urban, linguistic, or technological environments. The ambition of the book is therefore twofold: on the one hand, it aims to offer new readings of the three poets, demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary debates, putting them into dialogue with a philosophical corpus that has not yet played a role in the study of nineteenth century French poetry; on the other, the book relies on the three poets to establish an understanding of human subjectivity that is in tune with our twenty-first century concerns.

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