Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France: Critical Reflections (Volume 10) (imlr books)

Synopsis

This Volume Of Essays Focuses On How Poets Approach Reading As A Notion And A Practice That Both Inform Their Writing And Their Relationship To Their Readers. The 19th Century Saw A Broadened And Increasingly Self-conscious Concern With Reading As An Interpretive And Political Act, With Significant Implications For Poets' Individual Practice, Which They Often Forged In Dialogue With Other Poets And Artists Of The Time. Covering The 1830s To The Late 1990s, A Period Rich In Poetic Innovation, The Essays Examine A Wide Range Of Authors And Their Diverse Approaches To Reading As Inscribed In - And Related To - Creative Writing, And Articulate The Many Ways In Which Reading Developed As An Active Engagement Key To The Critical Thought That Drove Poetic Creation At The Dawn Of Aesthetic Modernity. Introduction / Joseph Acquisto, Adriana M. Paliyenko And Catherine Witt -- 'cet Ami Qui Prête Des Livres': Mallarmé And The Practice Of Reading / Rosemary Lloyd -- 'elle Avait Pour La Lecture Une Véritable Passion': Book Culture And Reading In Amable Tastu / Aimeé Boutin -- Reckless Reading In Nerval's 'les Nuits D'octobre' / E.s. Burt -- Better Well Hung Than Ill-wed: Sighting Cythera / Timothy Raser -- Judgement And Satire In Baudelaire's 'au Lectuer' / Catherine Witt -- Gautier On Baudelaire: Lessons From Hawthorne / Joseph Acquisto -- 'i Turned To Look At You To Read My Thought Upon Your Face': Baudelaire's Readers Transposed / Helen Abbott -- Zut Pictura Poesis: Lyrik Relations And Legacies In Coin De Table And 'sonnet Du Trou Du Cul' / Robert St. Clair -- The 'zutiste' And The Parnassian: Verlaine As Reader Of Coppée / Nicolas Valazza -- Illuminating The Critical Reader In The Poet: Malvina Blanchecotte And Louise Ackermann / Adrianna M. Paliyenko -- Tough Crowd: The Perils Of Reading Poetry Aloud, Or How Literary Value Is Negotiated Through Performance / David Evans -- Reading As A Desperate Practice / Kevin Newmark -- Bibliography -- Index. Edited By Joseph Acquisto, Adriana M. Paliyenko And Catherine Witt. Critical Essays. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.