Mallarmé's children
Subtitle: symbolism and the renewal of experience
By: Richard Cándida Smith.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 -- Criticism and interpretation; Symbolism (Literary movement); Literature and society; French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Description: "In a narrative combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Candida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stephane Mallarme, the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. Through the lens of symbolism, Candida Smith focuses on a variety of subjects: sexual liberation and the erotic, anarchism, utopianism, labor, and women's creative role. Paradoxically, the symbolists' reconfiguration of elite culture fit effectively into the modern commercial media.

After Mallarme was rescued from obscurity, symbolism became a valuable commodity, exported by France to America and elsewhere in the market-driven turn-of-the-century world. Mallarme's Children traces not only how poets regarded their poetry and artists their art but also how the public learned to think in new ways about cultural work and to behave differently as a result."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-296) and index.