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Forged genealogies : Saint-John Perse's conversations with culture / by Carol Rigolot.
LIBRA PQ2623.E386 Z813 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rigolot, Carol.
- Series:
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 271.
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 271
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975--Themes, motives.
- Saint-John Perse.
- Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 2001.
- Summary:
- According to Carol Rigolot, reading the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) is not unlike eavesdropping on a telephone conversation in which only one side is audible. His poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where interlocutors are almost always reduced to anonymity. In this book, Rigolot analyzes the poet's multiple strategies of dialogue, capturing his conversations with a surprising range of people--from biblical figures and ancient Greek and Roman authors to artists as diverse as Dante and Shakespeare, Chateaubriand and Hugo, Audubon, Whitman, Poe, Baudelaire, Verne, Mallarm, Gaughin, Rimbaud, Loti, Claudel, Valry, Segalen, and Braque.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807892750
- OCLC:
- 47050164
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