Description
About the Author
Robert St.Clair is Assistant Professor of French at Dartmouth College and co-editor-in-chief of Parade sauvage, the international journal of Rimbaud studies.
Reviews
I can say with certainty that he has written a serious study that draws meaningful conclusions about the subtle ways in which social and historical presence ... They are conclusions from which any reader of nineteenth-century poetry can profit. I certainly have. * Marshall Olds, H-France Review *
Robert St. Clair's study of Rimbaud's early verse is erudite, wide-ranging in argumentation, and sensitive to the intricacies of poetry's expressivity. * Daniel A. Finch-Race, L'Esprit Createur *
Robert St. Clair's brilliant new book Poetry, Politics & the Body in Rimbaud: Lyrical Material...demonstrates how even poems from 1870 contain stresses and cracks, formal imperfections that discreetly make the irruption to come little more than a matter of time.... A fruitful tension runs throughout Poetry, Politics & the Body between St. Clair's vast learning and Rimbaud's own poems * Thomas C. Connolly, Yale University, French Forum *
In this important contribution to Rimbaud studies, Robert St. Clair moves fluidly among cultural studies, critical theory, intertextuality, and close readings to provide a focused yet wide-ranging consideration of the historical and political valences of the representation of bodies in Rimbaud's lyric poetry ... Rimbaud's bodies are, on St. Clair's account, social and historical; the book insightfully maps the way those bodies are represented in poetic and historical space. * Joseph Acquisto, French Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198826583
Author Robert St. Clair
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 584g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 163mm * 23mm