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The Rhetoric of Valéry's Prose Aubades

by Ursula R. Franklin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781487598761
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
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  • Pages: 168
  • Original Price: GBP 18.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 259 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / French

While Paul Val�ry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This study demonstrates the significance of Val�ry as a prose poet and of the form and its evolution in the poet's oeuvre. The close textual reading and analysis concentrate on Val�ry's prose aubades - the prose poems, poetic prose fragments, and sequences celebrating the emergence of the self and its world at dawn.


The theme of dawn pervades Val�ry's poetry from the opening chord of Charmes to those Notebooks which he kept from almost half a century and which are the source of so much of his poetry. This book shows how the moment and theme of dawn have also inspired the greater part of Val�ry's prose poems and poetic prose fragments.


Critics have begun to show interest in the break-up of traditional genres and in the emergence of the fragment as a new literary form. But Val�ry's position in this development has so far escaped critical inquiry, as have his prose poems in general. Professor Franklin redresses the balance with rigor, poise, and elegance. She shows how Val�ry's artistic progression from the traditional prose poem to the fragment, the evolution of the recueil to the sequence, represents a development very similar to that manifests in another new prose form, the new nouveau roman. It is a brilliant analysis of a neglected aspect of Val�ry's work and a thoughtful interpretation of Val�ry's thought and poetics as a whole.

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