In this Book
- Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
summary
According to Carol Rigolot, reading the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) is not unlike eavesdropping on a telephone conversation in which only one side is audible. His poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where interlocutors are almost always reduced to anonymity. In this book, Rigolot analyzes the poet's multiple strategies of dialogue, capturing his conversations with a surprising range of people--from biblical figures and ancient Greek and Roman authors to artists as diverse as Dante and Shakespeare, Chateaubriand and Hugo, Audubon, Whitman, Poe, Baudelaire, Verne, Mallarme, Gaughin, Rimbaud, Loti, Claudel, Valery, Segalen, and Braque.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-6
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 9-10
- Introduction
- pp. 11-18
- Chapter 4. The Imaginary Atlas of Exil
- pp. 89-103
- Chapter 9. The Textual Seas of Amers
- pp. 162-175
- Conclusion
- pp. 241-246
- Bibliography
- pp. 247-256
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469639215
Related ISBN(s)
9780807892756
MARC Record
OCLC
1080551974
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
Open Access
No