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Author Monroe, Jonathan, 1954-

Title A poverty of objects : the prose poem and the politics of genre / Jonathan Monroe
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1987

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Contents Introduction: The prose poem as a dialogical genre -- pt. 1. Two precursors: Universalpoesie as fragment: Friedrich Schlegel and the prose poem -- Novalis's Hymnen an die Nacht and the prose poem avant la lettre -- pt. 2. The prose poem in its heroic age: Baudelaire's poor: The Petits poèmes en prose and the social reinscription of the lyric -- Narrative, history, verse undone: the prose poetry of Rimbaud -- pt. 3. The prose poem in the age of cubism: History as farce: (re)situating Max Jacob's Cornet à dés -- The violence of things: the politics of Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons -- pt. 4. The other side of things: Self-reflexive fables: Ernst Bloch's Spuren -- Fragments of a world restored: Francis Ponge's "rhetoric by objects" -- pt. 5. Beyond French borders: two contemporaries: Politics and solitude: the prose poetry of Robert Bly -- Time doesn't pass: Helga Novak and possibilities of the prose poem -- Conclusion: uses of the prose poem
Analysis Prose poetry in European languages, ca 1800-1985 - Critical studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-341) and index
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Subject Prose poems -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Prose poems
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 86024026
ISBN 9781501746116
1501746111