{"product_id":"objects-observed-the-poetry-of-things-in-twentieth-century-france-and-america-hardback-9781487501570","title":"Objects Observed; The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America (Hardback) 9781487501570","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eObjects Observed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn C. Stout (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501570\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The focus of Stout\u0026amp;#x2019;s analysis of modern poetry and the object is on the lyrical dimensions to the various types of elucubration written on both sides of the Atlantic, and with good English translations from the French in parallel, \u003ci\u003eObjects Observed\u003c\/i\u003e examines how poets envision the object, not least the human (and specifically male) body.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Andrew Stafford, University of Leeds (\u003cem\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eObjects Observed\u003c\/em\u003e explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes these poets with a catalyst for creating a new poetics and for reflecting on lyric as a genre. In France, the object has been central to a broad range of aesthetic practices, from the era of Cubism and Surrealism to the 1990s. In the heyday of American Modernism, several major poets foregrounded the object in their work; however, in postwar twentieth-century America, poets moved away from a focus on the object. \u003ci\u003eObjects Observed \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the variety of aesthetic practices and positions in French and American poets from the years of high Modernism (1909–1930) to the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne: The Object In Modernism In The United States And France\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo: Cubism And The Poetry Of The Object: Pierre Reverdy\u0026amp;#x2019;s Aesthetics Of Impersonality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree: The Text As Object: Francis Ponge\u0026amp;#x2019;s Verbal Still Lifes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour: Description As Transfiguration: Jean Follain\u0026amp;#x2019;s (Meta)Poetics Of The Object\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive: The Object As (M)other: Guillevic\u0026amp;#x2019;s Poetry And Object-Relations Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSix: Jean Tortel\u0026amp;#x2019;s Poetics Of The Desiring Gaze\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeven: \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;#x2019;objet apres l\u0026amp;#x2019;objet\u003c\/i\u003e: Contemporary French Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52713902637336,"sku":"9781487501570","price":49.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/objects-observed-the-poetry-of-things-in-twentieth-century-france-and-america-hardback-9781487501570","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}