Review
"Michael Temple is to be congratulated on an interesting project." -Journal of European Studies, March 1999 (
Journal of European Studies )
"Published during the centenary year of Mallarm�''s death, this collection of carefully thought-out literary and philosophical encounters brings together 10 innovative analyses. It is the process of cultural influence, quite as much as Mallarm�''s gloriously present oeuvre and persona that informs the incisive and fascinating contributions." -Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 7(3) 1999 (
Modern and Contemporary France )
Product Description
An examination of the use of names and the art of naming in the works of Stephane Mallarme. Maintaining an independent critical and self-critical approach, the author elaborates a "theory of the name" from within the Mallarmean text, rather than through the application of the external theory. The work provides the reader with new ways of thinking about Mallarme's "development" and about poetry's attempt to break out of an embattled position in the last decades of the 19th century.