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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caws, Mary Ann, Author.

Contributor:

Caws, Mary Ann, editor.

Delville, Michel, 1969- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prose poems--History and criticism.

Prose poems.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Companion to the prose poem

Prose poem

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A 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.

Contents:

Intro

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Origins and Beginnings

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

2. Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud's Artful Authenticity

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

4. Thyrsus &amp

Palimpsest: De Quincey's influence on Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris

5. A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fin de siècle

Part II: Visual Mediations

6. Cubism and the Prose Poem

7. The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art

8. The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem

Part III: Genres and Discourses

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

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

11. Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem

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

Part IV: Issues and Contexts

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

14. Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry

15. Grzegorz Wróblewski's Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription

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

17. The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan

18. The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq

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

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

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-6276-6

1-4744-9606-7

1-4744-6275-8

OCLC:

1251443880