6 Cubism and the Prose Poem

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Origins and Beginnings
8. 1 The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France 9
9. 2 Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud’s Artful Authenticity 23
10. 3 Novalis’ HYMNEN AN DIE NACHT and the Prose Poem AVANT LA LETTRE 35
11. 4 Thyrsus and Palimpsest: De Quincey’s Influence on Baudelaire’s LE SPLEEN DE PARIS 50
12. 5 A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the FIN DE SIÈCLE 67
13. Part II Visual Mediations
14. 6 Cubism and the Prose Poem 89
15. 7 The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art 103
16. 8 The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem 121
17. Part III Genres and Discourses
18. 9 The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Microgenres 135
19. 10 The Prose Poem and the Antinovel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute’s TROPISMES 150
20. 11 Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem 168
21. 12 Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson 181
22. Part IV Issues and Contexts
23. 13 An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem 195
24. 14 Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry 213
25. 15 Grzegorz Wróblewski’s KOPENHAGA and the Process of Inscription 230
26. 16 The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of Chinese SANWENSHI 247
27. 17 The SANBUNSHI (Prose Poem) in Japan 262
28. 18 The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq 281
29. 19 After Poet’s Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse 295
30. 20 “Prose in Prose” in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography 310
31. Index 328
32. Plates 337