Objects observed : the poetry of things in twentieth-century France and America / John C. Stout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stout, John Cameron, author.

Series:

University of Toronto romance series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art objects in literature.

Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

French poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

French poetry.

Object (Aesthetics) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 The Object in Modernism in the United States and France p. 12

2 Cubism and the Poetry of the Object: Pierre Reverdy's Aesthetics of Impersonality p. 60

3 The Text as Object: Francis Ponge's Verbal Still Lifes p. 89

4 Description as Transfiguration: lean Follain's (Meta)Poetics of the Object p. 125

5 The Object as (M)Other: Guillevic's Poetry and Object-Relations Theory p. 156

6 Jean Tortel's Poetics of the Desiring Gaze p. 197

7 L'Objet après L'Objet: Contemporary French Poetry p. 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.

ISBN:

1487501579

9781487501570

OCLC:

980679646

Publisher Number:

40028233173