N. Takeda, The Modernist Human. The Configuration of Humanness in Stéphane Mallarmé's Herodiade, T. S. Eliot's Cats, and Modernist Lyrical Poetry

Noriko TAKEDA, The Modernist Human. The Configuration of Humanness in Stéphane Mallarmé's Hérodiade, T. S. Eliot's Cats, and Modernist Lyrical Poetry

Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Wien, Peter Lang (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures), 2008, 180 p.
EAN : 9780820488288


RÉSUMÉ

Modernist poetry, in its fragmented form, continues to intrigue readers. In this sequel to A Flowering Word (Peter Lang, 2000), Noriko Takeda clarifies the modernist schism's meaningful role as a productive furnace for both interpretive humanness and its own solid concretization. The discussed main works are Stéphane Mallarmé's Hérodiade, T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and shorter poems in foregrounded lyricality by these two writers.


BIOGRAPHIE

Noriko Takeda is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Hiroshima University. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. Her publications include A Flowering Word: The Modernist Expression in Stéphane Mallarmé, T. S. Eliot, and Yosano Akiko (Peter Lang, 2000).