Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren
by Jacques Rancière, translated by Steven Corcoran
In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancire, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stphane Mallarm. Ranciere presents Mallarm as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarm is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding. Read more... Content: Table of contents; Notes on the translation; Foreword; The foam of the poem; The poetics of mystery; The hymn of spiritual hearts; The duty of the book; Appendix: selected texts; Notes; Index. Abstract: In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancire, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stphane Mallarm. Ranciere presents Mallarm as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarm is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding
類別:
年:
2011
出版商:
Continuum
語言:
english
頁數:
111
ISBN 10:
0826438407
ISBN 13:
9780826438409
文件:
PDF, 339 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2011