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French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
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French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
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What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of
poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve
as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist
poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear
from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the
questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in
which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature
and function of the lyric through an ever-shifting set of
intertextual and cultural contexts. Rather than focusing on
'musicality' in verse, the author addresses the consequences of
choosing music as a site of dialogue with poetry. Acquisto argues
that memory plays an under acknowledged yet vital role in these
poets' rewriting of symbolist poetics. His reading of their
interactions, and his focus on both major and neglected poets,
exposes the myth of a small handful of 'great authors' shaping
symbolism while a host of disciples propagated the tradition.
Rather, Acquisto proposes, the multiplicity of authors writing and
rewriting symbolism invites a dialogic approach to the poetics of
the period. Moreover, music, as theorized rather than performed or
heard, serves as a privileged mobile space of poetic creation and
dialogue for these poet-critics; it is through engagement with
music, supposedly the purest or most abstract of the arts, that one
can retrace the textual and cultural transformations accomplished
by the symbolist tradition. By extension, these poets' rethinking
of poetics is an occasion for present-day critics to re-examine
assumptions, not only about the intersections of music and poetry
and our understanding of symbolist poetics but also about the role
that the aesthetic implicitly plays in the creation, preservation,
or reshaping of cultural memory.
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