The poetry of Alfred de Musset : styles and genres /
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| Author / Creator: | Bishop, Lloyd, 1933- |
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| Imprint: | New York : P. Lang, c1987. |
| Description: | 187 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the humanities ; vol. 6 Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) vol. 6. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/842022 |
| Summary: | Professor Bishop's book challenges the conventional wisdom that sees Alfred de Musset solely as the writer of intensely personal lyric poetry. By closely studying Musset's major poetic works and his numerous reflections on the art of poetry, Bishop reveals a poet whose work cannot be reduced to a sentimental cri de coeur and whose poetics cannot be reduced to an esthetique du sentiment. Musset is shown to be a poet of many styles and many genres, including a substantial poetry of ideas. The book also offers closely reasoned discussions of subjects rarely discussed in French letters: romantic irony, the greater Romantic lyric, musicality and euphony." |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 187 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [177]-184. |
| ISBN: | 0820403571 |