ISBN: 9780674032408 - divagations (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Clean pages except for a prior owner's ink stamp on the title page; square, uncreased spine; soft cover shows only light edge wear at corners; otherwise excellent. ix, 302pp.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. pp. 312.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. 2009. 1st. Paperback. A work by the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme. Translator(s): Johnson, Barbara. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 202 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 288. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 312 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. The salmagundi of prose poems, musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations is a treasure trove for students of aesthetics and modern poetry. The only book of prose Mallarme published in his lifetime, it is now available for the first time in Eng.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a book just the way I don't like them,' the father of French Symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: 'scattered and with no architecture.' On the heels of this caveat, Mallarmé's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If Mallarmé captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-siècle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from Valéry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as Mallarmé arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Whether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, Mallarmé remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.…