Poetry's appeal
Subtitle: nineteenth-century French lyric and the political space
By: E.S. Burt.
Series: Meridian; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: French poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Political poetry, French -- History and criticism
Description: "Socrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what does the banished language of poetry say about its relation to public space? Is it possible to draw a line severing the language of beauty from the language of truth?".

"In chapters on Chenier, Hugo, Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Valery, the book details some of the struggles between the ideological and material sides of poetry with the nineteenth-century remappings of political space: memory and the archive, the censorship of material history, the propping of founding performatives, the legibility of founding texts, the need to redefine action where technique is productive, and the recognition and assimilation of zones owed to technique."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280) and index.