The symbolist movement in iterature / Arthur Symons ; edited with an introduction by Matthew Creasy.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Symons, Arthur, author.

Contributor:

• Creasy, Matthew, 1974- editor, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
• French literature.
• Symbolism (Literary movement)--France.
• Symbolism (Literary movement).
• France.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (310 pages))

Place of Publication:

Manchester, [England] : Fyfield Books : Carcanet, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Symons' interest in writers such as Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé puts him at the heart of' contemporary debates about Decadence and Symbolism in fm-de-siéele literature; but his work was also a formative influence on modernist writers such as Joyce, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, helping to shape the role of the linage m modernist writing. This new critical edition makes available a key text that has been out of print for over 50 years, and includes the essays that Symons added to the expanded edition of his hook in 1919. It also includes an introduction, chronology and notes. together with appendices presenting the full text of Symons' essay 'The Decadent Movement in Literature' and a selection of his transial ions of poems by Verlaine and Mallarme. Book jacket.

Contents:

• The Symbolist Movement in Literature
• Section I Essays Included in the 1908 Edition 3
• Introduction 5
• Gérard de Nerval 9
• Villiers de l'Isle-Adam 23
• Arthur Rimbaud 33
• Paul Verlaine 41
• Jules Laforgue 54
• Stéphane Mallarmé 61
• The Later Huysmans 72
• Maeterlinck as a Mystic 80
• Conclusion 88
• Section II Essays Added to the 1919 Edition 91
• Joris-Karl Huysmans 94
• A Note on Zola's Method 109
• Edmond and Jules de Goncourt 118
• Balzac 126
• Prosper Mérimée 141
• Gustave Flaubert 153
• Théophile Gautier 158
• Léon Cladel 161
• Charles Baudelaire 165.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 28, 2014).

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Symons, Arthur. Symbolist movement in literature.

ISBN:

• 1712153
• 9781847775474

OCLC:

881571323

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.