Mallarmé Apollinaire Maeterlinck Jarry: Space and Subject in French Poetry and Drama, c.1890-1920
<p>This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can occur between these...
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| description | <p>This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can occur between these modes, focusing on a relatively narrow corpus of core texts: Mallarmé’s <em>Igitur</em> (c. 1867-70) and <em>Un Coup de dés</em> (1897); Apollinaire’s “Zone” (1912) and various of his <em>calligrammes</em>; Maeterlinck’s early one-act plays—<em>L’Intruse</em> (1890), <em>Les Aveugles</em> (1890), and <em>Intérieur</em> (1894); and Jarry’s <em>Ubu roi</em> (1896) and <em>César-Antechrist</em> (1895). The poetic and dramatic practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader cultural and philosophical contexts of the <em>fin de siècle</em>. The <em>fin de siècle</em> witnessed a profound epistemological shift: the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, increasingly challenged throughout the nineteenth century, was largely dismantled, with ramifications beyond physics, philosophy and psychology. Chapter 1 introduces three foundational notions—Newtonian absolute space, the unitary Cartesian subject, and subject-object dualism—that were challenged and ultimately overthrown in turn-of-the-century science and art. Developments in theatre architecture and typographic design are examined against this philosophical backdrop with a view to establishing a diachronic and interdisciplinary framework of the authors in question. Chapter 2 focuses on the spatial dimension of Mallarmé’s <em>Un Coup de dés</em> and Apollinaire’s <em>calligrammes</em>—works which defamiliarise page-space by undermining various (naturalised) conventions of paginal configuration. In Chapter 3, the notion of liminality (the experience or condition of the betwixt and between) is implemented in an analysis of character and diegetic space as constructed in Jarry’s <em>Ubu roi</em> and Maeterlinck’s one-acts. Chapters 4 and Chapter 5 undertake a more abstract investigation of parallel inverse processes—the <em>subjectivisation of space</em> and the <em>spatialisation of the subject</em> —manifest not only in the works of Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Apollinaire and Jarry, but in the period’s poetry and drama more generally.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5599de57-2028-4292-80c7-72f79326925b2024-12-08T13:39:43ZMallarmé Apollinaire Maeterlinck Jarry: Space and Subject in French Poetry and Drama, c.1890-1920Thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:5599de57-2028-4292-80c7-72f79326925bHistory of art and visual cultureCognitionVisual art and representationLiteratures of Romance languagesDramatic artsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - Valet2015Shtutin, LHolland, M<p>This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can occur between these modes, focusing on a relatively narrow corpus of core texts: Mallarmé’s <em>Igitur</em> (c. 1867-70) and <em>Un Coup de dés</em> (1897); Apollinaire’s “Zone” (1912) and various of his <em>calligrammes</em>; Maeterlinck’s early one-act plays—<em>L’Intruse</em> (1890), <em>Les Aveugles</em> (1890), and <em>Intérieur</em> (1894); and Jarry’s <em>Ubu roi</em> (1896) and <em>César-Antechrist</em> (1895). The poetic and dramatic practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader cultural and philosophical contexts of the <em>fin de siècle</em>. The <em>fin de siècle</em> witnessed a profound epistemological shift: the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, increasingly challenged throughout the nineteenth century, was largely dismantled, with ramifications beyond physics, philosophy and psychology. Chapter 1 introduces three foundational notions—Newtonian absolute space, the unitary Cartesian subject, and subject-object dualism—that were challenged and ultimately overthrown in turn-of-the-century science and art. Developments in theatre architecture and typographic design are examined against this philosophical backdrop with a view to establishing a diachronic and interdisciplinary framework of the authors in question. Chapter 2 focuses on the spatial dimension of Mallarmé’s <em>Un Coup de dés</em> and Apollinaire’s <em>calligrammes</em>—works which defamiliarise page-space by undermining various (naturalised) conventions of paginal configuration. In Chapter 3, the notion of liminality (the experience or condition of the betwixt and between) is implemented in an analysis of character and diegetic space as constructed in Jarry’s <em>Ubu roi</em> and Maeterlinck’s one-acts. Chapters 4 and Chapter 5 undertake a more abstract investigation of parallel inverse processes—the <em>subjectivisation of space</em> and the <em>spatialisation of the subject</em> —manifest not only in the works of Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Apollinaire and Jarry, but in the period’s poetry and drama more generally.</p> |
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