Spatiality and Subjecthood in Mallarme, Apollinaire, Maeterlinck, and Jarry : Between Page and Stage EPUB

by Leo Shtutin

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This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry.

Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can occur between these modes, focusing on a range of core texts including Mallarme's Igitur and Un Coup de des; Apollinaire's 'Zone' and various of hiscalligrammes; Maeterlinck's early one-act plays: L'Intruse, Les Aveugles, and IntÃ©rieur; and Jarry's Ubu roi and CÃ©sar-Antechrist..

The poetic and dramatic practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader cultural and philosophical contexts of the fin de siÃ¨cle. The fin de siÃ¨cle witnessed a profound epistemological shift: the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, increasingly challenged throughout the nineteenth century, was largely dismantled, with ramifications beyond physics, philosophy, and psychology.

Chapter 1 introduces three foundational notionsâ€”Newtonian absolute space, the unitary Cartesian subject, and subject-object dualismâ€”that were challenged and ultimately overthrown in turn-of-the-century science and art.

Developmentsin theatre architecture and typographic design are examined against this philosophical backdrop with a view to establishing a diachronic and interdisciplinary framework of the authors in question.

Chapter 2 focuses on the spatial dimension of MallarmÃ©'s Un Coup de dÃ©s and Apollinaire's calligrammesâ€”works which defamiliarisepage-space by undermining various (naturalised) conventions of paginal configuration.

In Chapter 3, the notion of liminality is implemented in an analysis of character and diegetic space as constructed in Jarry's Ubu roi and Maeterlinck's one-acts.

Chapters 4 and Chapter 5 undertake a more abstract investigation of parallel inverse processes-the subjectivisation of space and the spatialisation of the subjectâ€”manifest not only in the works ofMallarmÃ©, Maeterlinck, Apollinaire, and Jarry, but in the period's poetry and drama more generally.