TY  - GEN
AU  - Pearson, Roger 
TI  - Unfolding Mallarmé: the development of a poetic art
SN  - 9780198159179
U1  - 841.8 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Yor
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mallarmé, Stéphane, -- 1842-1898
KW  - Literature
KW  - Mallarme's poetry
KW  - Poetry - Literature
KW  - Criticism and Interpretation
N1  - Includes bibliography and index
N2  - Unfolding Mallarme proposes new meanings in Mallarme's poetry and seeks to present the development of his poetic art as a successful search for linguistic and textual mastery. This development is systematically traced from Mallarme's earliest verse through to 'Un coup de Des', the radically innovative poem which was about to be published in a fine-art edition at the time of his sudden death in 1898. In a series of close readings, Roger Pearson examines Mallarme's poetic output up to and including the central 'Sonnet en yx', which is discussed both in its earliest version and within the context of 'Plusieurs sonnets'. These readings are followed by analyses of other major sonnets, of 'Prose (pour des Esseintes)', and of 'Un coup de Des' itself. The 'profound calculation' on which Mallarme claimed to have based this seemingly random text is here unfolded in all its structural and semantic complexity
ER  -