| Mallarmé's Ideas in Language Contributor(s): Raitt, Lia N. R. C. (Editor), Williams, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039101625 ISBN-13: 9783039101627 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $72.53 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.8 |
| LCCN: 2004048411 |
| Series: Romanticism and After in France |
| Physical Information: 182 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mallarm 's impact has been too great to remain within the confines of French-language culture, or indeed literary studies. While much of the first century of Mallarm 's posthumous glory has been spent looking at his ideas on language as a key to his difficult oeuvre, something far more fundamental to his originality has been brushed over: his ideas in language. Contained within that shift of preposition is Mallarm 's unique way of handling concepts. This book is about the sheer improbability of Mallarm 's joint concern with concepts, or ideas, on the one hand, and with language as it behaves within the constraints of poetic convention on the other. While the emphasis is on Mallarm as a handler of concepts, this is not primarily a study of Mallarm 's philosophical ideas, still less of philosophical influences that bore on him. Its real theme is Mallarm 's discovery that in order to do something with concepts he must do something to language. |