The Crisis of French Symbolism
| Author | : Laurence Porter |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2019-05-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501746178 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1501746170 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Crisis of French Symbolism by : Laurence Porter
Download or read book The Crisis of French Symbolism written by Laurence Porter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging traditional histories of the nineteenth-century French lyric, Laurence Porter maintains that from 1851 to 1875 Symbolism constituted neither a movement nor a system, but rather represented a crisis of confidence in the powers of poetry as a communicative act. The Crisis of French Symbolism offers a provocative reinterpretation of the four acknowledged masters of Symbolist poetry: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé.
