Poetry Proscribed: Twentieth-Century (Re)Visions of the Trials of Poetry in France

by James Petterson

Through its unparalleled exploration of the trials of poetry from the early seventeenth to twentieth centuries, Poetry Proscribed opens a new line of inquiry into the present-day stakes of poetry through in-depth investigation of the mishearing inherent to poetry's relation to philosophy, history, politics, and the law. By considering the literal and figural trials of Th ophile de Viau, Andr Ch nier, Charles Baudelaire, Andr Breton,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611482992
• ISBN13: 9781611482997
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 195 Pages