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The Writer's Way in France
This book is an attempt to present a new, integral approach to French literature. Acknowledging his debts to numerous post-Hegelian philosophers or psychologists and modern critics, Professor Cohn offers a lucid and swift-paced account of an original view of literature which bears particular kinship to the artistic visions of Joyce, Mallarmé, and Proust. In Part I the creative temperament is defined in terms of a subtly recognizable rhythm of human nature which appears in varying forms or "syncopations." In Part II the evolution of the rhythm is followed through changing themes, images, styles, and genres from the earliest known native origins to the crowning work of the Symbolists. Parts I...
The Poetry of Rimbaud
In this interpretative analysis of the poetry of Rimbaud, Robert Greer Cohn first introduces the reader to the work of Rimbaud and outlines the poet's precocious, meteoric career. He then integrates the various aspects of the poetry into a coherent view, one which avoids a tendentious or reductive approach and does not fit some of the poems into a system and omit the rest. The early poems are given their due importance, and the difficult Illuminations are at last made accessible. This will be the standard book on the subject, one which will long be read and consulted by teachers and students of Rimbaud's poetry. It provides analyses of key passages of the poems, with detailed clarifications ...
Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century
Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).
Mallarmé's Divagations
This «guide and commentary» offers an elucidation of all the difficult passages of Mallarmé's Divagations, his influential main body of critical writing. It provides the information essential to an understanding of each article and of his critical project as a whole. The running commentary deals extensively with the relationship between Divagations and the other major writings of Mallarmé, particularly the Coup de Dés, his crowning creation which is his closest approach to his lifelong dream and project of a Great Work.
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