Mallarmé's children

Description:

"In a narrative combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Candida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stephane Mallarme, the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. Through the lens of symbolism, Candida Smith focuses on a variety of subjects: sexual liberation and the erotic, anarchism, utopianism, labor, and women's creative role. Paradoxically, the symbolists' reconfiguration of elite culture fit effectively into the modern commercial media. After Mallarme was rescued from obscurity, symbolism became a valuable commodity, exported by France to America and elsewhere in the market-driven turn-of-the-century world. Mallarme's Children traces not only how poets regarded their poetry and artists their art but also how the public learned to think in new ways about cultural work and to behave differently as a result."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History and criticism,  American literature,  French literature,  Literature and society,  Symbolism (Literary movement),  Intellectual life,  Criticism and interpretation,  Mallarme, stephane, 1842-1898,  French literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  American literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  France, intellectual life,  Symbolisme (Mouvement littéraire),  Littérature et société,  Littérature française,  Histoire et critique,  Vie intellectuelle,  Littérature américaine,  TRAVEL,  Special Interest,  Literary,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  General,  Symbolisme,  Gedichten,  Frans,  Amerikaans,  Languages & Literatures,  Literature - General

People: Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)

Places: France

Times: 19th century,  20th century