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Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
To observe how a notable self-declared detractor of description and realism descripts nature may sound as a rather arbitrary or irreverent way of reading. Nonetheless, besides being a body of texts, Mallarmé is also the result of his interpreters; as much as any other literary authority, readings of his works have been negotiated by different groups, which must not be seen as untouchable or unmovable entities. Enthroning the author by accepting his considerations about his work without question and reasoning might deserve objections as well. In any case, would it be worthwhile to hold an investigation about a poem by Mallarmé whose foundations imply the consideration of landscape description as its expressive backbone? That is the tentative question this essay is committed to.
Repository Citation
de Melo Franco, Rogério. "Mallarmé, Poet of the Earthly World: On Spatiality in L’Après midi d’un Faune." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 14, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1–23. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol14/iss3/8