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Saint-John-Perse
Supplement au Catalogue. 1928 Date de l'edition originale: 1928
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise mise en place avec la…
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Saint-John Perse
The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also…
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For Perse these lines are brief, but they are as fine as anything he has done. With these words The Times Literary Supplement greeted the publication in France of the…
Carol Rigolot
Saint John Perse’s (1887-1975) poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where interlocutors are almost always reduced to anonymity. This book analyzes the poet’s multiple strategies of dialogue, capturing his…
Ruth N. Horry
In many ways Claudel and Perse reveal a similarity in their purpose and design, yet there are striking differences in their outlook. Claudel’s view is Christian in orientation and concerns…
Presented here in English translation are letters selected for publication by the poet himself, shortly before his death, from his wide correspondence with famous writers and public figures such as…
Mary Ann Caws,Saint-John Perse
This is a bilingual - French-English - edition of selected poetry.
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Dr Marie-Laure Ryan
Langage d'actes et de gestes, le rite instaure un mode de representation qui n'est pas imitation ni commemoration, mais reactualisation de l'evenement represente. Il differe du geste pratique comme l'enonce…
Richard L Sterling
The purpose of this book is to elucidate and explain the themes, images and style of the poetry of Saint-John Perse through a critical study of the letters, speeches, testimonials…
Kerstin Mauerer
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Regensburg, 2009.
Valerie Loichot
Investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, Toni Morrison, and Saint-John Perse - to…
Roger Little
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Renee Ventresque
In completing the edition of his complete works for the Pleiade, Saint-John Perse signs his last poem. Haunted by the great texts of the 19th century, this imaginary construction blurs…
Alfred Glauser
Le poeme, qu'il obeisse a des regles strictes ou qu'il s'affranchisse de toute loi d'ecriture, reste irreductible a la prose, dans sa forme, dans sa transmission d'un sens ou dans…
Flora Souchard
In an innovative approach to literary bestiaries, this book studies poetic fauna in its organicity, which appears essential to the rhythm and thought of poetry. In a dynamic of obliqueness…
Elizabeth R. Jackson
