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French poetry is unique in that it places a great emphasis on language
itself. In this book, Jean-Jacques Thomas and Steven Winspur focus
on the linguistic aspects of recent poems written in French. From
Apollinaire and Eluard to the Oulipians, from the spacialists to Yves
Bonnefoy and Andrée Chedid, from Max Jacob and Saint-John Perse
to Edouard Glissant and Denis Roche, this book analyzes the innovations
crafted by more than fifty writers. With its eleven chapters and extensive
bibliography, this is the most comprehensive English-language introduction
to French poetry of the twentieth century. |
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Jean-Jacques
Thomas is Professor of Romance Studies, Literature, and
Linguistics at Duke University. He is the author of several books,
including Jacques Roubad (Rodopi, 1997) and La Langue
Volée (Peter Lang, 1989).
Steven
Winspur is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and is the author of Bernard Noël (Rodopi,
1991) and Saint-John Perse and the Imaginary Reader (Droz,
1988). |
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