Full Description
The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloyisius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire's Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre's hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre's transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.
Contents
Notes on contributorsPreface, Rosemary Lloyd
Introduction, Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville
Part I: Origins and Beginnings
1. The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France, Joseph Acquisto
2. Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud's Artful Authenticity, Aimée Israel-Pelletier
3. Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre, Jonathan Monroe
4. Thyrsus & Palimpsest: De Quincey's influence on Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris, Nikki Santilli
5. A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fin de siècle, Margueritte Murphy
Part II: Visual Mediations
6. Cubism and the Prose Poem, Mary Ann Caws
7. The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art, Emma Wagstaff
8. The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem, Richard Deming
Part III: Genres and Discourses
9. The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Micro-Genres, Michel Delville
10. The Prose Poem and the Anti-Novel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute's Tropismes, Jane Monson
11. Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem, Lizzy LeRud
12. Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson, Adam Ross Rosenthal
Part IV: Issues and Contexts
13. An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem, Alyson Miller
14. Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry, Lynn Domina
15. Grzegorz Wróblewski's Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription, Piotr Gwiazda
16. The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of Sanwenshi, Nick Admussen
17. The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan, Scott Mehl
18. The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq, Sinan Antoon
19. After Poet's Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse, Stephen Fredman
20. Prose in Prose in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography, Jeff Barda
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