The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda

Susan Harrow

Published by University of Toronto Press 2004

The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self

Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda

Susan Harrow

In the series University of Toronto Romance Series

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442681705

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Probing the activity of textual self-recovery among the debris of history and fantasy, visuality and desire, and culture and corporeality, The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self imparts something of the startling beauty and the raw urgency of poetry writing across the broad modern period.

Author / Editor information

Harrow Susan :

Susan Harrow is a senior lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Wales Swansea.

Reviews

Michael Bishop, Department of French, Dalhousie University:

'Susan Harrow's The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self constitutes a serious and valuable contribution to the current scholarship devoted to poetic modernity. This is a fine piece of critical thinking that invites us to rethink in subtle but very important ways the work of the three canonical writers and one, Réda, whose crowning is imminent.'

John Stout, Comparative Literature Programme, McMaster University:

'The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self is one of the best pieces of scholarship on modernist poetry to have been written in the last twenty years. Susan Harrow offers thorough, fascinating, and lucid commentary on the representative texts of this poetic tradition, while highlighting concerns — such as the inscription of the body in language — that have a particular resonance in contemporary literary studies. On every page, Harrow offers fascinating and thought-provoking insights into the work of these poets, and in each case, her arguments are original and convincing.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Debris, Mess, and the Modernist Self: Rimbaud from Poésies to the Illuminations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Material Fragments, Autobiographical Fantasy: Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
3. From Culture Critique to Poetic Capital: Ponge's Things-in-Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
4. Sweeping the (Sub)urban Savannah: Everyday Culture and the Rédean Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Summations, Speculations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 290

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Published: July 30, 2004
ISBN: 9781442681705