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11%OFFKelley Khalfa - The New French Poetry - 9781852242602 - V9781852242602
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The New French Poetry

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Description for The New French Poetry Paperback. POETRY / LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEMOIRS, LETTERS Editor(s): Kelley, David; Khalfa, Jean. Num Pages: 320 pages, ports. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an in?uential strand in recent French literature. It is a rigorously ontological poetry concerned with the very being of things, and with the nature of poetic language itself. This is not the only kind of poetry being written in France today, but it is an extremely signi?cant development, not only in French poetry, but also in French writing as a whole. Indeed, some of the writers included in this book, notably Édmond Jabès and Gérard Macé, have ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852242602
SKU
V9781852242602
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About Kelley Khalfa
David Kelley (1941-1999) was Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was made an Officier des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture. As well as co-editing The New French Poetry, he translated two other editions of French poets for Bloodaxe, The River Underground: Selected Poems by Jean ... Read more

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