The Crisis of French Symbolism

by Laurence Porter

Overview

Challenging traditional histories of the nineteenth-century French lyric, Laurence Porter maintains that from 1851 to 1875 Symbolism constituted neither a movement nor a system, but rather represented a crisis of confidence in the powers of poetry as a communicative act. The Crisis of French Symbolism offers a provocative reinterpretation of the four acknowledged masters of Symbolist poetry: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501746178
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,029,912
File size:	27 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Laurence Porter is Professor of Romance and Classical Languages at Michigan State University.