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ToolsScott, Clive (1998) The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198159445
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This book explores the expressive resources peculiar to French verse, first through formal discussion of its poetics and then through detailed readings of texts from the 17th century to the present. At the same time, it offers a reassessment of the nature of the reading process itself, and makes a case for rescuing a sense of the complex modalities of language from the pressure to interpret. Reading is, above all, the experience of language, and of the self through language, and we should seek ways of preserving these kinds of experience, even though the conventions of critical discourse militate against them. Part Two presents a sequence of thirteen readings (including texts by La Fontaine, Chénier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, éluard, Césaire). These readings are grouped according to a set of underlying preoccupations - formal, acoustic, rhythmic, narratological, etc. - and each group is prefaced by an introductory discussion of the particular aspect highlighted.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © Clive Scott 1998. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | apollinaire,baudelaire,chénier,french verse,la fontaine,mallarmé,poetics,reading,vigny,Éluard,arts and humanities(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2025 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 11:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100350 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159445.001.0001 |
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