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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé: The Passage from Art to Ritual

Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé: The Passage from Art to Ritual

Shaw, Mary Lewis

Paperback

Theater History

ISBN10: 0271026693
ISBN13: 9780271026695
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 1992
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarmé, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake.

Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarmé perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore as ideal forms of ritual through which to supplement and celebrate poetic texts. She focuses on previously unexplored references to supplementary, extratextual performances in four of Mallarmé's major poetic texts--Herodiade, L'après-midi d'un faune, Igitur, and Un coup de des--revealing the consistent formal expression of his original conception of literature's relationship to the performing arts.

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