268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive and comparative study of some of the fundamental structural aspects of modernist poetic writing in English, French and German in the first decades of the twentieth century. The work concerns itself primarily with basic structural elements and techniques and the assumptions that underlie and determine the modernist mode of poetic writing.... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Mallarmé’s Language: Transposition, Structure 2. Apollinaire’s Perspectives 3. Ezra Pound: Image, Vortex, Ideogram 4. Max Jacob: Style, Situation 5. Pierre Reverdy: The Poem as Object 6. Georg Trakl: Existential Conception and Semantic Ambience; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
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Theo Hermans
