Mallarmé's Children
Subtitle: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780520218284
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary studies: general; c 1800 to c 1900; French literature; French Poetry; Poetry; French; Literary Criticism; Literature and society; History and criticism; American - General; European - French; History / General; Mallarme, Stephane; Symbolism (Literary movement); 1842-1898; 19th century; Criticism and interpretation; Mallarme, Stephane,
First sentence: The arts as a precious interior world, marked by a home whose brocaded wall coverings muffle the intrusions of an ever noisier, machine-driven, vulgar society; an enclave of beauty where a delicate, pale aristocrat nur the finer sensibilities through immersion in the higher realities found in exquisitely crafted books, art, and music; the more ornate the better, for every golden filigree and each glittering gem stops the mind's inner noise and provides a structure for contemplating the mysteries of cre