Although the muse is an integral element in discussions of poetic creation, no extended study before Refiguring the Muse has addressed the role of this figure in French literature. This work focuses on the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, Albert Samain, Sully Prudhomme, Anna de Noailles, and Renee Vivien and takes as its central concern the relationships between poetic expression and the social, cultural, and historical representations of gender between 1870 and 1914. Dr. Levy's approach to the subject is twofold. First, she redefines the term muse in order to take into account the changes that the word has undergone within the French historical and literary context since the thirteenth century. Then, she shows how the figure of the poetic muse itself changes and begins to be liberated from the nineteenth-century concept that had kept the trope frozen in a passive role. The discussion is contextualized through an examination of the evolution of the muse from Baudelaire through the Surrealists and ultimately demonstrates how the poetic muse changed at the turn of the century.
| ISBN: | 9780820437828 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1999 |
| Author: | Gayle A Levy |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 186 pages |
| Series: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Social and cultural history Cultural studies |
Although the muse is an integral element in discussions of poetic creation, no extended study before Refiguring the Muse has addressed the role of this figure in French literature. This work focuses on the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, Albert Samain, Sully Prudhomme, Anna de Noailles, and Renee Vivien and takes as its central concern the relationships between poetic expression and the social, cultural, and historical representations of gender between 1870 and 1914. Dr. Levy's approach to the subject is twofold. First, she redefines the term muse in order to take into account the changes that the word has undergone within the French historical and literary context since the thirteenth century. Then, she shows how the figure of the poetic muse itself changes and begins to be liberated from the nineteenth-century concept that had kept the trope frozen in a passive role. The discussion is contextualized through an examination of the evolution of the muse from Baudelaire through the Surrealists and ultimately demonstrates how the poetic muse changed at the turn of the century.
Refiguring the Muse features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies
Refiguring the Muse is available in Hardback
Refiguring the Muse was written by Gayle A Levy and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Refiguring the Muse has 186 pages
Yes it is part of Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures series