Mallarme

FOWLIE, Wallace

University of Chicago Press

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Chicago Pr

This book includes an Introduction divided into three parts: 1. Proust and the French Novel 2. Marcel Proust the man 3. The literary and social background of the novel. The rest of the work provides a good summary and critical review of the grand opus book-by-book. A conclusion: The esoteric in Proust: symbol and myth.

A Reading of Proust (Midway Reprint)

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A reading of Proust (A Phoenix book)

Literary Studies, Classic Literature, Italian Studies

A Reading of Dante's Inferno

Poetry

This work is a guide to the reading of Dante's great poem, intended for the use of students and laymen, particularly those who are approaching the Inferno for the first time. While carefully pointing out the uniqueness, tone, and color of each of Dante's thirty-four cantos, Fowlie never loses sight of the continuity of the poet's discourse. Each canto is related thematically to others, and the rich web of symbols is displayed and disentangled as the poem's unity, patterns, and structures are revealed. What particularly distinguishes Wallace Fowlie's reading of the Inferno is his emphasis on both the timelessness and the timeliness of Dante's masterpiece. By underlining the archetypal elements in the poem and drawing parallels to contemporary literature, Fowlie has brought Dante and his characters much closer to modern readers.

Wallace Fowlie provides an uncommonly well-written survey of French Symbolism by way of analyzing key poems in relation to the historical and literary contexts in which they were written.The literary symbol, as it has been used since Baudelaire’s time, has in Fowlie’s view a closer relationship with the religious spirit of humanity than with any practical or didactic use. Symbolism has been a major focus of literary study since Baudelaire’s Correspondances, which can be seen as a succinct manifesto. It has provided an aesthetic basis for works that have elements of both myth and allegory. These are among the most impressive works of literature since 1850, which have reacted strongly against a realistic art of precision in order to reflect preoccupations that are religious and philosophical. After tracing the background of Symbolism from Romanticism to “Art for Art’s Sake,” Fowlie considers the work of Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Laforgue, Corbière, and Verlaine. He then recapitulates the major features of Symbolism and illustrates its continuity to our day. Fowlie sees Symbolism and modern poetry not as the art of rules and obstacles, but rather as the art of triumph over obstacles and the transcendence of human adventure and experience. He concludes with penetrating analyses of the poetic practice of Valéry, Claudel, St. John Perse, and René Char.

Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism

Penn State University Press

Paul Claudel (Study in Modern European Literature & Thought)

Bowes & Bowes

Mid-Century French Poets: Selections, Translations, and Critical Notices

Twayne Pub

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Mallarme

Mallarme

A Reading of Proust (Midway Reprint)

A reading of Proust (A Phoenix book)

A Reading of Dante's Inferno

A Reading of Dante's Inferno

Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism

Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism

Paul Claudel (Study in Modern European Literature & Thought)

Mid-Century French Poets: Selections, Translations, and Critical Notices