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Spatiality and Subjecthood in Mallarme, Apollinaire, Maeterlinck, and Jarry - Between Page and Stage (Hardcover)
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Spatiality and Subjecthood in Mallarme, Apollinaire, Maeterlinck, and Jarry - Between Page and Stage (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and
subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume
Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with
various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the
cross-pollination that can occur between these modes, focusing on a
range of core texts including Mallarme's Igitur and Un Coup de des;
Apollinaire's 'Zone' and various of his calligrammes; Maeterlinck's
early one-act plays: L'Intruse, Les Aveugles, and Interieur; and
Jarry's Ubu roi and Cesar-Antechrist.. The poetic and dramatic
practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader
cultural and philosophical contexts of the fin de siecle. The fin
de siecle witnessed a profound epistemological shift: the
Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, increasingly challenged throughout
the nineteenth century, was largely dismantled, with ramifications
beyond physics, philosophy, and psychology. Chapter 1 introduces
three foundational notions-Newtonian absolute space, the unitary
Cartesian subject, and subject-object dualism-that were challenged
and ultimately overthrown in turn-of-the-century science and art.
Developments in theatre architecture and typographic design are
examined against this philosophical backdrop with a view to
establishing a diachronic and interdisciplinary framework of the
authors in question. Chapter 2 focuses on the spatial dimension of
Mallarme's Un Coup de des and Apollinaire's calligrammes-works
which defamiliarise page-space by undermining various (naturalised)
conventions of paginal configuration. In Chapter 3, the notion of
liminality is implemented in an analysis of character and diegetic
space as constructed in Jarry's Ubu roi and Maeterlinck's one-acts.
Chapters 4 and Chapter 5 undertake a more abstract investigation of
parallel inverse processes-the subjectivisation of space and the
spatialisation of the subject-manifest not only in the works of
Mallarme, Maeterlinck, Apollinaire, and Jarry, but in the period's
poetry and drama more generally.
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