Poeticized Language: The Foundations of Contemporary French Poetry - Softcover

Winspur, Steven; Thomas, Jean-Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271018135 ISBN 13: 9780271018133

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Contemporary French poetry is unique in that it places a great emphasis on language itself. In this book, Jean-Jacques Thomas and Steven Winspur focus on the linguistic aspects of recent poems written in French. From Apollinaire and Eluard to the Oulipians, from the spacialists to Yves Bonnefoy and Andrée Chedid, from Max Jacob and Saint-John Perse to Edouard Glissant and Denis Roche, this book analyzes the innovations crafted by more than fifty writers. With its eleven chapters and extensive bibliography, this is the most comprehensive English-language introduction to French poetry of the twentieth century.

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About the Authors

Jean-Jacques Thomas is Professor of Romance Studies, Literature, and Linguistics at Duke University. He is the author of several books, including Jacques Roubad (1997) and La Langue Volée (1989).

Steven Winspur is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is the author of Bernard Noël (1991) and Saint-John Perse and the Imaginary Reader (1988).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271018135
• ISBN 13: 9780271018133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288