Objects Observed Objects Observed

Objects Observed

The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America

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Publisher Description

Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes these poets with a catalyst for creating a new poetics and for reflecting on lyric as a genre. In France, the object has been central to a broad range of aesthetic practices, from the era of Cubism and Surrealism to the 1990s. In the heyday of American Modernism, several major poets foregrounded the object in their work; however, in postwar twentieth-century America, poets moved away from a focus on the object. Objects Observed illuminates the variety of aesthetic practices and positions in French and American poets from the years of high Modernism (1909–1930) to the 1990s.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
19 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
466
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
SIZE
2.4
MB

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