The Edinburgh companion to the prose poem / edited by Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caws, Mary Ann, editor.

Delville, Michel, 1969- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prose poems--History and criticism.

Prose poems.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 336 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white and color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to the prose poem

Prose poem

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

A collection of original essays providing critical, international and cross-disciplinary approaches to the prose poem. Provides the first international and comparative approach to the prose poem. Includes chapters on non-Western avatars of the genre. Covers the history of the prose poem from Baudelaire to present. The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloyisius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire's Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre's hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre's transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Origins and Beginnings

1. The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France / Joseph Acquisto

2. Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud's Artful Authenticity / Aimee Israel-Pelletier

3. Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre / Jonathan Monroe

4. Thyrsus 8c Palimpsest: De Quincey's influence on Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris / Nikki Santilli

5. A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fin de siecle / Margueritte S. Murphy

pt. II Visual Mediations

6. Cubism and the Prose Poem / Mary Ann Caws

7. The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art / Emma Wagstaff

8. The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem / Richard Deming

pt. III Genres and Discourses

9. The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Microgenres / Michel Delville

10. The Prose Poem and the Antinovel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute's Tropismes / Jane Monson

11. Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem / Lizzy LeRud

12. Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson / Adam R. Rosenthal

pt. IV Issues and Contexts

13. An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem / Alyson Miller

14. Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry / Lynn Domina

15. Grzegorz Wroblewski's Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription / Piotr Gwiazda

16. The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of sanwenshi / Nick Admussen

17. The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan / Scott Mehl

18. The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq / Sinan Antoon

19. After Poet's Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse / Stephen Fredman

20. Prose in Prose in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography / Jeff Barda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474462747

147446274X

OCLC:

1222806465

Publisher Number:

99986913330