Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes / Willard Bohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohn, Willard, 1939- author.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918. Calligrammes.

Apollinaire, Guillaume.

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918--Criticism and interpretation.

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Language Note:

Contains selections of poems from Calligrammes in French and English translation.

Summary:

"Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes examines Guillaume Apollinaire's second major collection of poetry. Composed between 1913 and 1918, the nineteen poems examined here fall into two main groups: the experimental poetry and the war poetry. They also provide glimpses of the poet's personal history, from his affair with Louise de Coligny-Châtillon to his engagement to Madeleine Pagès and his marriage with Jacqueline Kolb. Each section examines all of the previous scholarship for the work in question, provides a detailed analysis, and, in many cases, offers a new interpretation. Each poem is subjected to a meticulous line-by-line analysis in the light of current knowledge."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Revolution and renewal

Simultaneous exercises

Miraculous encounters

Visual poetry

The war poetry

More war poetry

Order and adventure

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-255) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bohn, Willard, 1939- Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes.

ISBN:

1501338315

9781501338311

OCLC:

989047804