An Essay On French Verse
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Author |
: Jacques Barzun |
Publisher |
: New Directions |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811211576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811211574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Essay on French Verse by : Jacques Barzun
Barzun, Essay on French Verse. From the author of From Dawn to Decadence.
Author |
: Stanley Appelbaum |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2012-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486119991 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486119998 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to French Poetry by : Stanley Appelbaum
Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.
Author |
: Charles Forsdick |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3039105140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783039105144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Modern Essay in French by : Charles Forsdick
As a textual form, the essai predominates in modern and contemporary literature in French. Emerging from an earlier tradition and distinguished from its English-language counterpart, the French-language essay ranges from Stéphane Mallarmé to Colette, Victor Segalen to Aimé Césaire, Jean Grenier to Pierre Michon. The essai remains, however, one of the most hazily identified of textual forms, its definition often depending on the progressive elimination of all other generic possibilities. Excluded from the archigenres (theatre, poetry, récit), it can even be seen as a hold-all category whose role is to absorb the anarchic extremes of writing. It is perhaps this very lack of pretension to orthodoxy that has drawn so many writers to the essai. The conventional understanding of the term - as a tentative, unsystematic exploration - stresses the genre's provisional nature, its refusal of any claims to comprehensiveness. The essai exploits the devices of anecdote, illustration and humour; it is addressed to a wide and often general audience; it is also intricately linked to the performance of ideological and writerly strategies, often reordering the classical art of rhetoric and persuasion. As the contributions to this volume show, there is a need to outline an ethics and politics, as well as poetics, of essayism.
Author |
: Jacques Barzun |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811211584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811211581 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Essay on French Verse by : Jacques Barzun
In An Essay on French Verse-For Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling English prejudice against French poetry. Barzun's many-faceted and entertaining study muses on six hundred years of French verse, its rules and forms and how they evolved. It also has significant sections on the French language itself, its sounds and difficulties; on verse music in language generally; on the character and achievements of the greatest French poets; and finally, on the social and political conditions that encouraged successive innovations, including the prevailing wordwide practice of free verse. The Essay, moreover, draws not only on a lifetime's reading, but on personal reminiscences as well: of stuffy poetry lessons in the French lycée; of the poet Apollinaire expounding his views on language to amuse the child sitting on his knee; of the author's great-grandmother telling him about proper French pronunciation, as it was in her youth, eighty years earlier. In sum, Barzun's book goes a long way toward answering the question posed in 1917 by A. E. Housman to André Gide: How is it that every nation has produced poetry except France?
Author |
: Rose Heylbut |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1923 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015030728946 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Opinions of French Poetry, 1660-1750 by : Rose Heylbut
Author |
: Alan T. Gaylord |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 445 |
Release |
: 2013-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134826421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134826427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse by : Alan T. Gaylord
These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody. In his seminal essay, Scanning the Prosodists, Alan Gaylord (the editor of this volume) had asked: To show how Chaucer moves, and in moving, moves us: is that not what the study of his prosody should do? Should it not identify a pattern of sounds in motion, a regular and expressive succession which is part of the order of verse and a major component of its effectiveness? In the two decades that followed that essay, a number of distinguished scholars provided a variety of answers for such questions, arising from the authors' work as metrical theorists, or editors of medieval verse, or literary historians, or critics -- but in every case, such work connected to the initiatives and discoveries of the classroom. The best written and most useful of those essays, by recognized authorities in their fields, have been included in this volume. The volume will be of use to the advanced student of Chaucer and medieval poetry, and to the teacher interested in identifying, explaining, and bringing to life the patterns of sound and sense in Chaucer's verse. The extensive master Bibliography for the whole volume comprises a library of references which will have been reviewed and discussed in the essays.
Author |
: Paul Auster |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 689 |
Release |
: 1984-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780394717487 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0394717481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry by : Paul Auster
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world’s greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. “Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.”—Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review “One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice
Author |
: John Cann Bailey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015030202280 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Claims of French Poetry by : John Cann Bailey
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105017424297 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The French American Review by :
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 596 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015060430082 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
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