Objects Observed

By - Stout, John Cameron

Floor - Floor 3

Published - University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2018

ISBN 10 - 1487501579

ISBN 13 - 9781487501570

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Poetry, Modern

Shelf No - 3

Call Number - 809.104 STO

Physical Description - 320 pages

Notes - Includes Index

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Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes these poets with a catalyst for creating a new poetics and for reflecting on lyric as a genre. In France, the object has been central to a broad range of aesthetic practices, from the era of Cubism and Surrealism to the 1990s. In the heyday of American Modernism, several major poets foregrounded the object in their work; however, in postwar twentieth-century America, poets moved away from a focus on the object. Objects Observed illuminates the variety of aesthetic practices and positions in French and American poets from the years of high Modernism (1909-1930) to the 1990s.

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