Objects Observed : The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781487513528
- PN1271 .S768 2018
Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Object in Modernism in the United States and France -- 2 Cubism and the Poetry of the Object: Pierre Reverdy's Aesthetics of Impersonality -- 3 The Text as Object: Francis Ponge's Verbal Still Lifes -- 4 Description as Transfiguration: Jean Follain's (Meta)Poetics of the Object -- 5 The Object as (M)Other: Guillevic's Poetry and Object-Relations Theory -- 6 Jean Tortel's Poetics of the Desiring Gaze -- 7 L'Objet après L'Objet: Contemporary French Poetry -- Conclusion: Two Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Objects Observedexplores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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