Louisa Siefert was a prolific poet, critic, playwright, and
novelist who published many works that were bestsellers in
nineteenth-century France. This bilingual critical edition of
Siefert’s Les Stoïques (1870) aims to restore Louisa Siefert’s
intellectual legacy while providing ample material for further
scholarship on her unique poetic voice. Siefert’s intellectual
power and aesthetic originality are especially pronounced in her
Les Stoïques, a volume that exemplifies her transdisciplinary mind
and rich sonnet practice. The more than forty poems collected here
are presented in the original French with masterful translations
into English by Norman R. Shapiro, one of the most highly regarded
English translators of French poetry. Shapiro’s inspired
translations of Siefert’s texts give readers gain a sense of her
prosodic mastery and flair as well as the way she uses poetry to
think about the relation between mind and body. In her
introduction, Adrianna M. Paliyenko reconstructs from original
archival research the reception of Les Stoïques from May 1870 to
the present, describing how many nineteenth-century readers
considered Siefert’s philosophical verse to be central to her
contribution to French poetic history and, in turn, how the
gendering of poetic expression and the canon sidelined Siefert’s
intellectual accomplishment. A monumental achievement, this book
brings the work of a major French poet to a broader audience.
Siefert’s poetic primer on the Stoic way of thinking about why
humans suffer or find serenity and joy, and other big questions of
life, will strike a chord with modern readers.
General
| Imprint: |
Pennsylvania State University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Louisa Siefert
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| Translators: |
Norman R. Shapiro
|
| As told to: |
Adrianna M. Paliyenko
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-271-09553-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-271-09553-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780271095530 |
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