Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language

by HeathLeeswithextractstranslatedfromtheFrenchbyRose (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $151.88

  Surveys the success and failure that resulted from Mallarme's repeated attempts to draw out the musical gestures and resonances of words alone. In the process, this work throws light on many of Mallarme's best-known texts, hitherto judged 'difficult' by those who have failed to appreciate the extent of the poet's heroic descent.