| Poetryâ (Tm)S Appeal: Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space Contributor(s): Burt, E. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804738734 ISBN-13: 9780804738736 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: "Poetry's Appeal situates itself in what might be considered the single most significant critical debate in Romanticism over the last two or so decades. Its principal concern being the relation between (poetic) language and history, it reconsiders what has been characterized as the retreat of literature, and in particular the lyric, from politics. . . . Burt's readings follow in the line of important critics such as Paul de Man, Barbara Johnson, and Kevin Newmark, who have brought the most finely tuned rhetorical readings to nineteenth-century French literature."--European Romantic Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 841.709 |
| LCCN: 99039452 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry's Appeal studies the reemergence of a viable poetry in the politicized culture of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France. It finds that poetry addresses history and the political through a disjunction between its illusory status as a song of private, lyrical intent and its actual state as a material inscription, inevitably public in character. |