Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé: Voice, Conversation and Music

By Helen Abbott and Dr Helen Abbott

Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarm , together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future of both poetry and music. Abbott considers the meaning of 'voice' in terms of rhetoric, the human body, exchange, and music, showing that Baudelaire and Mallarm exploit the complexity and instability of voice to propose a new aesthetic situating poetry between conversation and music.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754667456
• ISBN13: 9780754667452
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"