Meetings With Mallarme

edited by Michael Temple and contributions by Geoffrey Bennington, Rei Terada, Malcolm Bowie, Patrick ffrench, Michael Holland, Rachel Killick, Charles D. Minahen, Kate van Orden, Michael Temple, Burhan Tufail and Clive Scott

Book cover: Meetings With Mallarme

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(August 1998)

ISBN: 9780859895620

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $30.00

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Hardback (Published)

(August 1998)

ISBN: 9780859895613

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $112.00

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In Meetings with MallarmE, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of MallarmE’s influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory.


From Paul Valery to Julia Kristeva, the work of StEphane Mallarme has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century French culture. His texts have served as emblem and inspiration for successive generations of cultural theorists and practitioners. In Meetings with Mallarme, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of MallarmE’s influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory. By re-staging these textual encounters, the book demonstrates how the ghostly presence of Stephane Mallarme profoundly informed the projects of such key figures as Valery, Lacan, Sartre, Derrida, Boulez, de Man, Bonnefoy, Kristeva, Blanchot and the Oulipo group. All quotations are translated.

Paul Valery, Rachel Killick
Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles D. Minahen
Maurice Blanchot, Mike Holland
Jacques Lacan, Malcolm Bowie
Paul de Man, Rei Terada
Yves Bonnefoy, Clive Scott
Pierre Boulez, Kate van Orden
Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington
Julia Kristeva, Patrick ffrench
Oulipo, Burhan Tufail

  • Contributions by Geoffrey Bennington
  • Contributions by Malcolm Bowie
  • Contributions by Patrick ffrench
  • Contributions by Michael Holland
  • Contributions by Rachel Killick
  • Contributions by Charles D. Minahen
  • Contributions by Kate van Orden
  • Contributions by Clive Scott
  • Contributions by Michael Temple
  • Contributions by Rei Terada
  • Contributions by Burhan Tufail

"Published during the centenary year of MallarmE's death, this collection of carefully thought-out literary and philosophical encounters brings together 10 innovative analyses. It is the process of cultural influence, quite as much as MallarmE's gloriously present oeuvre and persona that informs the incisive and fascinating contributions." Modern and Contemporary France, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1999 "Michael Temple is to be congratulated on an interesting project." Journal of European Studies, March 1999
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