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W. Bohn, Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes

W. Bohn, Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Willard Bohn)

Référence bibliographique : Willard Bohn, Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes, Bloomsbury, collection "Bloomsbury Academic", 2017. EAN13 : 9781501338311.

 

Ce livre s'occupe du deuxieme grand recueil poetique d'Apollinaire. Ecrits entre 1913 et 1918, les dix-neuf poemes examines ici tombent dans deux groupes principaux: poesie experimentale et poesie de guerre. Entre autres choses, ils fournissent plusieurs apercus de l'histoire personnelle du poete, passant de son amour pour Louise de Coligny-Chatillon jusqu'a ses fiancailles avec Madeleine Pages et son mariage eventuel avec Jacqueline Kolb. Chaque section considere toutes les etudes preexistantes, fournit une analyse detaillee et, souvent, presente une nouvelle interpretation. Chaque poeme est sujete a une analyse minutieuse a la lumiere de notre connaissance courante.

Table of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Revolution and Renewal
2. Simultaneous Exercises
3. Miraculous Encounters
4. Visual Poetry
5. The War Poetry
6. More War Poetry
7. Order and Adventure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

“Willard Bohn has produced a monumental work of exegesis. This volume, a close study of nineteen key poems in chronological order, elucidates in a line-by-line analysis the complexities and nuances of these poems. Drawing on his vast erudition, Willard Bohn, a leading American scholar of Apollinaire's life and artistic career, coordinates, integrates and maps-without scholarly jargon-all the previous studies of Calligrammes within a larger panoramic vision of the artist, his world and modernist vision. Bohn's readings provide a “cutting edge” understanding of Apollinaire's poetic accomplishment, his poetic innovations, visual poetry, collage poems, use of simultaneity and cubistic perspectives, indeterminacy and desired ambiguity. Bohn restores Apollinaire's major and final masterpiece, Calligrammes, to its rightful place as a key document in the history of Western poetry of the twentieth century and still affecting us today in the postmodern era.” –  Seth L. Wolitz, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, USA

“Willard Bohn here presents his own enlightened and original readings of nineteen poems selected from Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes, constantly testing his views and interpretations against those offered by scores of other critics, past and present. The result is an international, polyphonic and polyfocal appreciation of an essential group of astonishing texts that together form a cornerstone of European modernism.” –  Peter Read, Professor of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK