Beschreibung:
Countering the conventional image of the deliberately obscure "ivory-tower poet," Frameworks for Mallarmé presents Stéphane Mallarmé as a journalist and critic who was actively engaged with the sociocultural and technological shifts of his era. Gayle Zachmann introduces a writer whose aesthetic was profoundly shaped by contemporary innovations in print and visual culture, especially the nascent art of photography. She analyzes the preeminence of the visual in conjunction with Mallarmé's quest for "scientific" language, and convincingly links the poet's production to a nineteenth-century understanding of cognition that is articulated in terms of optical perception. The result is a distinctly modern recuperation of the Horatian doctrine of ut pictura poesis in Mallarmé's poetry and his circumstantial writings.
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Frames of Reference I: Une exquise crise, fondamentale 2. Frame of Reference II: Le futur vers se dégage 3. Frames of Consciousness in "Igitur": Devant le papier l'artiste se fait 4. Framed Works and Mallarmé: The steadfast gaze of a vision restored to its simplest perfection 5. Frame Works for Mallarmé: Dans l'oubli fermé par le cadre se fixe, de scintillations 6. Interartistic Frameworks: Employez des comparaisons prises à tous les arts, mais la poésie les résume Coda: Exposing Change-Quotidian Frameworks and Developing Movements Notes Bibliography Index