The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem is the first comprehensive guide to the prose poem written from an international and comparative perspective.
The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloyisius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre’s hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre’s transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.
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No longer to be understood as just another genre, the prose poem emerges here as a form of writing that unsettles our very notions of what poetry is or should be. From Novalis and Baudelaire, to such multinational writers as the Polish-Danish Grzegorz Wróblewski, from Rimbauds Illuminations to the Japanese sanbunshi and the Surrealist prose poems of post-Saddam Iraq, these essayists give us a heady new sense of what "postgeneric writing," as Steven Fredman calls it, can look like. There is something for everybody in this groundbreaking and truly global anthology. * Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University *
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| Introduction |
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Part I Origins and Beginnings |
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1 The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France |
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2 Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud's Artful Authenticity |
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3 Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre |
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4 Thyrsus 8c Palimpsest: De Quincey's influence on Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris |
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5 A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fin de siecle |
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Part II Visual Mediations |
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6 Cubism and the Prose Poem |
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7 The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art |
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8 The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem |
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Part III Genres and Discourses |
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9 The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Microgenres |
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10 The Prose Poem and the Antinovel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute's Tropismes |
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11 Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem |
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12 Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson |
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Part IV Issues and Contexts |
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13 An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem |
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14 Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry |
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15 Grzegorz Wroblewski's Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription |
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16 The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of sanwenshi |
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17 The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan |
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18 The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq |
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19 After Poet's Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse |
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20 Prose in Prose in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography |
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Mary Ann Caws works on the relations between literature and art, and is the co-editor, with Hermine Riffaterre, of The Prose Poem in France.Theory and Practice (1983). Her recent publications include Pierre Reverdy (2013), the Modern Art Cookbook (2014), Surprised in Translation (2006), Surrealism (2004), and Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (2017). She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Resident Professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the past president of the Modern Language Association and the American Comparative Literature Association, the editor of the Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry and the translator of Andre Breton, Rene Char, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Gherasim Luca, Stephane Mallarme, and Tristan Tzara. Michel Delville teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literature, at the University of Liège. He is the author or co-author of The American Prose Poem, J.G. Ballard, Hamlet & Co, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism, Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde and Crossroads Poetics: Text, Image, Music, Film & Beyond. He has also co-edited several volumes of essays on contemporary poetics.
