Mis-Reading the Creative Impulse: The Poetic Subject in Rimbaud and Claudel, Restaged - Hardcover

Paliyenko, Associate Professor Adrianna M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080932122X ISBN 13: 9780809321223

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Building on work by Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, and Harold Bloom, Adrianna M. Paliyenko’s richly textured study revises our previous understanding of Arthur Rimbaud’s (1854–1891) indirect artistic influence on Paul Claudel (1868–1955).

Paliyenko’s analysis answers to critical readings that rely on speculative spiritual affinities and text-surface similarities in identifying Claudel as Rimbaud’s artistic follower. She traces the two writers’ development of the poetic subject, striving to map Claudel’s "creative corrections," or revisions, of Rimbaud’s work. In redirecting discussion of Rimbaud’s work, she develops a Bloomian paradigm of how creative artists strive for originality by correcting or revising their predecessors.

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About the Author

Adrianna M. Paliyenko is an associate professor of French at Colby College, where she teaches language and literature with a focus on nineteenth-century poetry, women writers, and artistic relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 080932122X
• ISBN 13: 9780809321223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224