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Objects Observed : The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America / John C. Stout.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stout, John C., author.
- Series:
- University of Toronto Romance Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Art objects in literature.
- Object (Aesthetics) in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Cover; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Object in Modernism in the United States and France; 2 Cubism and the Poetry of the Object: Pierre Reverdy's Aesthetics of Impersonality; 3 The Text as Object: Francis Ponge's Verbal Still Lifes; 4 Description as Transfiguration: Jean Follain's (Meta)Poetics of the Object; 5 The Object as (M)Other: Guillevic's Poetry and Object-Relations Theory; 6 Jean Tortel's Poetics of the Desiring Gaze; 7 L'Objet apres L'Objet: Contemporary French Poetry; Conclusion: Two Traditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-1353-4
- 1-4875-1352-6
- OCLC:
- 1031706394
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