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Tristan Corbière and the Poetics of Irony


Free Download Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, "Tristan Corbière and the Poetics of Irony"
English | 2006 | pages: 245 | ISBN: 0199295883 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Tristan Corbière is often viewed as the archetypal poète maudit, a misunderstood rebel and bohemian prankster. This is a study of the poet’s innovative use of language. It uses the critical tool of irony to analyze his idiosyncratic verse, showing how he contributed to the general revolution in poetic language that marked the 1870s in France. Corbière’s poetry pushed the ironic element in Baudelaire to its limit and exerted an important influence on Laforgue, Pound, and Eliot. It played a key role in the ironic tradition of Symbolism which is often overshadowed by the "pure" poetry of contemporaries like Mallarmé.

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