Research Catalog

Title

Mallarmé : the politics of the siren / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Steven Corcoran.

Author

Rancière, Jacques

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Corcoran, Steve

Description

xvi, 94 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Jacques Rancière examines the life and work of the celebrated 19th century French poet and critic, Stéphane Mallarmé. He presents Mallarmé as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of word, nor the silent nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written.

Uniform Title

Mallarmé. English

Alternative Title

Mallarmé.

Subject

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The foam of the poem -- The white concern -- The poetics of mystery -- The terms of mystery -- Scene of the dream -- From nothingness to the nothing -- The method of fiction -- The fan of the poem -- The hymn of spiritual hearts -- The religion of the century -- Two theses on divenity -- The poet and the worker -- Musical religion -- The god Wagner: poem, music and politics -- The duty of the book -- The poem as thought : a secular history -- Music, dance, poem : the circle of 'mimesis' -- The authentic page.

ISBN

• 9780826438409
• 0826438407

LCCN

^^2011002463

OCLC

• 648934474
• SCSB-10999740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library