Unacknowledged Legislators

Unacknowledged Legislators

The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France

Pearson, Roger (Professor of French, University of Oxford)

Oxford University Press

05/2016

646

Dura

Inglês

9780198754473

15 a 20 dias

Unacknowledged Legislators presents an original and detailed history of the theory and practice of French poetry from 1750 through to the end of the Romantic Period. Focussing on five major writers of the period, it demonstrates how the figure of the poet as lawgiver was central to the theory and practice of poetry during this period.
INTRODUCTION: THE POET AND THE LAW; II AVANT LE DELUGE (1750-1789); III APRES LE DELUGE: CHATEAUBRIAND'S MELANCHOLY; IV APRES LE DELUGE: STAEL'S ENTHUSIASM; V LEFT OR RIGHT?; VI LAMARTINE'S MURMUR: POETRY, POLITICS, AND PRAYER; VII HUGO'S INTIMACY: THE PRIVATE, THE PUBLIC, AND THE VISIONARY; VIII VIGNY'S ELIXIR: PITY, ENMITY, POSTERITY; IX CONCLUSION: BEYOND MELANCHOLY, OR A MINISTRY OF POETS
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