Mis-reading the creative impulse
Subtitle: the poetic subject in Rimbaud and Claudel, restaged
By: Adrianna M. Paliyenko.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 -- Influence.
Description: Building on work by Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, and Harold Bloom, Adrianna M. Paliyenko's richly textured study revises our previous understanding of Arthur Rimbaud's (1854-1891) indirect artistic influence on Paul Caudel (1868-1955).

Paliyenko's analysis answers to critical readings that rely on speculative spiritual affinities and text-surface similarities to identify Claudel as Rimbaud's artistic follower. She follows the two writers' development of the poetic subject, striving to map Claudel's "creative corrections," or revisions, of Rimbaud's work. In redirecting discussion of Rimbaud's work, she develops a Bloomian paradigm of how creative artists strive for originality by correcting or revising their predecessors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.