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Between Baudelaire and Mallarme - Voice, Conversation and Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Between Baudelaire and Mallarme - Voice, Conversation and Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
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As the status of poetry became less and less certain over the
course of the nineteenth century, poets such as Baudelaire and
Mallarme began to explore ways to ensure that poetry would not be
overtaken by music in the hierarchy of the arts. Helen Abbott
examines the verse and prose poetry of these two important poets,
together with their critical writings, to address how their
attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the
future of both poetry and music. Central to her analysis is the
issue of 'voice', a term that remains elusive in spite of its broad
application. Acknowledging that voice can be physical, textual and
symbolic, Abbott explores the meaning of voice in terms of four
categories: (1) rhetoric, specifically the rules governing the
deployment of voice in poetry; (2) the human body and its effect on
how voice is used in poetry; (3) exchange, that is, the way voices
either interact or fail to interact; and (4) music, specifically
the question of whether poetry should be sung. Abbott shows how
Baudelaire and Mallarme exploit the complexity and instability of
the notion of voice to propose a new aesthetic that situates poetry
between conversation and music. Voice thus becomes an important
process of interaction and exchange rather than something stable or
static; the implications of this for Baudelaire and Mallarme are
profoundly significant, since it maps out the possible future of
poetry.
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