Situating Mallarmé - David Kinloch

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Résumé :
Since his death just over a century ago, St?phane Mallarm? has become a major figure in world literature. Over this period, Mallarm? criticism has tended to concentrate on two aspects of his work. Firstly on textual analysis in order to tackle the difficulty of his writing and secondly, thanks to the interest shown in him by figures such as Barthes, Derrida, Kristeva and Lacan, on his theoretical writings. Indeed, this particular part of his oeuvre has somewhat dominated Mallarm? studies in the last thirty years. This book adopts a new approach by attempting to contextualise Mallarm?'s creative writing in terms of his relationships with other art forms, other writers and indeed other cultures. At the same time one of his own key obsessions with death is also reassessed, as is his relationship to the society of his time.
Mallarm?'s ambitious project was to exploit the potential of dance, music and painting as well as poetry in order to produce an artistic monument for the modern post-industrial age. Experts from all of these fields have therefore combined with literary specialists in order to adopt an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to Mallarm?'s work which marks a bold and exciting new departure in Mallarm? studies.

Biographie:
The Editors: David Kinloch is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has published widely on nineteenth- century aesthetics.
Gordon Millan is Professor of French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is author and editor of several important publications on St?phane Mallarm?.

Sommaire:
Contents: David Kinloch/Gordon Millan: Introduction - Heath Lees: '... depuis Wagner, la po?sie'. Mallarm? and the All-Embracing Word Work - Deirdre Reynolds: 'Le mouvement pur et le silence d?plac? par la voltige': Mallarm? and Dance, from Symbolism to Post-modernism - Rosemary Lloyd: 'Le Spectacle interrompu': Mallarm?, mystery, miroitement - Damian Catani: The poet as democrat: Art and consumerism in La Derni?re Mode - Roger Pearson: 'Un peu profond ruisseau calomni?': Mallarm? and the Circumscription of Death - James Lawler: L'Eur?ka mallarm?en - Patrick McGuinness: Mallarm?'s Pour un Tombeau d'Anatole - Bertrand Marchal: Les Noces du 'Livre' - Antje Quast: 'Le bouquet tout fait': L'inspiration mallarm?enne dans les ?crits et la peinture de Ren? Magritte - Penny Florence: 'Un Coup de d?s jamais n'abolira le hasard' on CD-ROM: 'l'avenir qui sortira d'ici'.