<P><EM>Objects Observed</EM> explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.</P> Cover; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Object in...
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Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.
Cover; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Object in Modernism in the United States and France; 2 Cubism and the Poetry of the Object: Pierre Reverdy's Aesthetics of Impersonality; 3 The Text as Object: Francis Ponge's Verbal Still Lifes; 4 Description as Transfiguration: Jean Follain's (Meta)Poetics of the Object; 5 The Object as (M)Other: Guillevic's Poetry and Object-Relations Theory; 6 Jean Tortel's Poetics of the Desiring Gaze; 7 L'Objet après L'Objet: Contemporary French Poetry; Conclusion: Two Traditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index