Pierre Albert-Birot
Subtitle: A Poetics in Movement, a Poetics of Movement
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780838636251
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Literary studies: general; Painting & paintings; Poetry; History; French Poetry; Individual Painters - 20th Century; Art; French; Literary Criticism; Individual Artist; Continental European; 20th century; Albert-Birot, Pierre; Criticism and interpretation; Poetics
Description: This book tries to encompass the life's achievement of Pierre Albert-Birot in art, poety, and prose. This book is a rich and exhaustively researched study of a fascinating figure and a most original mind. The volume also attempts to encompass a life's achievement and to view globally Albert-Birot's artistic, poetic, and prose productions. As such, this is an important contribution to the study and knowledge of French literature of the first half of the twentieth century and to interdisciplinary studies.

It is of interest not only to specialists in French literature, but also to art historians, literary historians, and those interested in comparative aesthetics.