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By Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe

Tristan Corbière is frequently seen because the archetypal poète maudit, a misunderstood insurgent and bohemian prankster. it is a research of the poet's leading edge use of language. It makes use of the severe device of irony to investigate his idiosyncratic verse, displaying how he contributed to the overall revolution in poetic language that marked the 1870s in France. Corbière's poetry driven the ironic point in Baudelaire to its restrict and exerted a big impression on Laforgue, Pound, and Eliot. It performed a key function within the ironic culture of Symbolism that is frequently overshadowed through the "pure" poetry of contemporaries like Mallarmé.

Using shut textual readings of poems from Les Amours jaunes (1873), the single assortment released in Corbière's lifetime, this booklet outlines a mode of examining his self-contradictory verse. It tackles the trouble of studying ironic discourse and demonstrates how irony operates in Les Amours jaunes in any respect degrees from verbal machine to world-view, displaying how the doubts of recent guy and the religious void of commodity tradition form the very language of his poetry. Synthesizing severe ways from continental and Anglo-American traditions, it analyzes his use of puns, oral diction, discussion, citation, and intertextuality. It indicates how he systematically undercuts recurring techniques of examining, through uploading novelistic concepts into verse to deride it from inside, and by means of ironizing irony itself. this can be an creation to the paintings of a demanding poet and a research of the perform of analyzing French verse.

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