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6637 Caws & Delville.Indd The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem 66637_Caws637_Caws & DDelville.inddelville.indd i 110/09/200/09/20 11:28:28 PPMM Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Published The Edinburgh Companion to Children’s Literature The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf Edited by Clémentine Beauvais and Maria and the Arts Nikolajeva Edited by Maggie Humm The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Studies Literatures in English Edited by Leslie Eckel and Clare Elliott Edited by Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Literatures in English Isobel Baxter Edited by David Johnson and Prem Poddar The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literature, Culture and the Arts Literatures – Continental Europe and its Edited by Josephine M. 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For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organization Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville, 2021 © the chapters their several authors, 2021 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun—Holyrood Road, 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 10 / 12 Adobe Sabon by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 6274 7 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 6275 4 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 6276 1 (epub) The right of Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville to be identifi ed as the editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). 66637_Caws637_Caws & DDelville.inddelville.indd iivv 110/09/200/09/20 11:28:28 PPMM Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiii Rosemary Lloyd Introduction 1 Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville Part I: Origins and Beginnings 1. The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France 11 Joseph Acquisto 2. Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud’s Artful Authenticity 23 Aimée Israel-Pelletier 3. Novalis’ Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre 35 Jonathan Monroe 4. Thyrsus & Palimpsest: De Quincey’s infl uence on Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris 50 Nikki Santilli 5. A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fi n de siècle 67 Margueritte Murphy Part II: Visual Mediations 6. Cubism and the Prose Poem 91 Mary Ann Caws 7. The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art 103 Emma Wagstaff 8. The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem 121 Richard Deming 66637_Caws637_Caws & DDelville.inddelville.indd v 110/09/200/09/20 11:28:28 PPMM vi contents Part III: Genres and Discourses 9. The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Microgenres 137 Michel Delville 10. The Prose Poem and the Antinovel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropismes 150 Jane Monson 11. Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem 168 Lizzy LeRud 12. Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson 181 Adam Ross Rosenthal Part IV: Issues and Contexts 13. An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem 197 Alyson Miller 14. Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry 213 Lynn Domina 15. Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription 230 Piotr Gwiazda 16. The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of sanwenshi 247 Nick Admussen 17. The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan 262 Scott Mehl 18. The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq 281 Sinan Antoon 19. After Poet’s Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse 295 Stephen Fredman 20. Prose in Prose in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography 310 Jeff Barda Index 328 66637_Caws637_Caws & DDelville.inddelville.indd vvii 110/09/200/09/20 11:28:28 PPMM List of Illustrations Figures Figure 15.1 The cover of Kopenhaga. Photo by Wojciech Wilczyk 243 Figure 20.1 Christophe Hanna, from “Le mauvais vitrier” 317 Figure 20.2 Jacques-Henri Michot, from ABC de la barbarie 322 Plates Plate 1 Juan Gris (José Victoriano González-Pérez, 1887–1927. Spanish, active in France), Still Life Before an Open Window, 5 Place Ravignan, 1915. Oil on canvas, 4 /8 × 35 inches (115.9 × 88.9 cm). Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950-134-95. Plate 2 Juan Gris, Still Life with Poem by Pierre Reverdy, 1915. Image courtesy of Norton Simon Art Foundation. Plate 3 Juan Gris, Still Life with Open Window, 1921. Image courtesy of Archivio fotografi co, Museo Reina Sofi a. Plate 4 Juan Gris, Le Canigou, 1921. Oil on canvas, 25½ × 39½ inches (64.77 × 100.33 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1947 (RCA1947:5). Image courtesy of Albright-Knox Art Gallery. 66637_Caws637_Caws & DDelville.inddelville.indd vviiii 110/09/200/09/20 11:28:28 PPMM Notes on Contributors Joseph Acquisto is Professor of French at the University of Vermont. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and the novel, with particular emphasis on the relations among literature, music, and philosophy. His books include Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance (2020), Proust, Music, and Meaning (2017), The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (2015), and French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (2006). Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Cornell University. He is the author of the scholarly monograph Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry (University of Hawaii Press, 2016), the translator of Ya Shi’s poetry collection Floral Mutter (Zephyr, 2019), and the author of two collections of original prose poetry, Movie Plots (Epiphany Editions, 2011) and Stand Back, Don’t Fear the Change (New Michigan Press, 2018). Sinan Antoon is the internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning author of several collection of poems in English and Arabic and four novels which have been translated into many languages. His co-translation of Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, a selection of Mahmoud Darwish’s poems, was nominated for the PEN Prize for translation in 2004. He teaches modern and modern Arabic literature and contemporary Arab cul- ture and politics at NYU’s Gallatin School. Jeff Barda is a lecturer in French cultural studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry (Palgrave, 2019) and the co-editor with Daniel Finch-Race of Textures: Processus et événements dans la création poétique moderne et contemporaine (Peter Lang, 2015). His solo publications include several articles that bring French poetic practice into contact with sound, performance, digital practice and law. He is currently co-editing with Philippe Charron a special volume on Pierre
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