Frameworks for Mallarmé : The Photo and the Graphic of an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic
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The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.
Countering the conventional image of the deliberately obscure "ivory-tower poet," Frameworks for Mallarm presents St phane Mallarm 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 Mallarm '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 Mallarm 's poetry and his circumstantial writings.
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- ISBN-13: 9780791475935
- ISBN-10: 079147593X
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publish Date: November 2008
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 223
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