... Mulk Mallarmé Stéphane Ibn al Fāriḍ ʿOmar Benjamin Walter Proust Marcel Roubaud Jacques Abū Nuwās Chraïbi Driss Joris Pierre Khatibi Abdelkébir Houellebecq Michel Milner Jean Claude Ibn Zaydūn Abū al Walīd Aḥmad Ryoko Sekiguchi Muwashshaḥ Qurʾān Arabic speech muqaṭaʿāt Giorgio Agamben...

...The Introduction first presents the key question of 21^st Century Symbolism: (how) can the writings of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Mallarmé help to establish a conception of subjectivity that is appropriate for our times? It situates this question in relation to contemporary...

...Albert Sonnenfeld’s essay, we return to Mallarmé, but this time in a context that emphasizes the quotidian pleasure of gastronomy. Sonnenfeld explores this ‘garden of culinary delights’ as seen in both Mallarmé’s correspondence and poetry. Sonnenfeld argues for both the eroticization of food...

..., intertextual nature of Loy’s poetic idiom, creating polyvalent constellations that function as dialectical knots. The chapter opens with a discussion of Loy’s text in relation to Mallarmé: I argue that Loy’s disjunctive structures are closer to his idea of the poem as a constellation than to Marinetti’s...

...’ rewriting Culler Jonathan Mallarmé Stéphane Scherer Jacques Baudelaire Charles Poe Edgar Allan Deleuze Gilles O’Meara Lucy rhuthmos rythmos schema ‘plan’ superimposition transversal transversality variety Marcellisme Painter George D Sade Marquis de Hill Leslie Coste Claude demand ‘la...

...R. Howard Bloch’s text explores Mallarmé’s linguistic links to antiquity and the medieval era. With a close reading of ‘Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard’—Mallarmé’s epic final, and perhaps most famous, poem—Bloch attends to the publication history of the text, its typographic layout...

...Beginning with a contextual reading of the prose-text ‘Le Livre, instrument spirituel’, this chapter argues that Mallarmé (like Baudelaire and Verlaine) understands reading and writing as a practice through which we mediate our relation to the world. This can also be seen...

...This chapter reads Mallarmé in conjunction with 20^th and 21^st century media theory. It begins with a close-reading of the prose poem ‘Le démon de l’analogie’. Here the narrator is caught in a media-environment (haunted by a mystical sentence) that he cannot comprehend...

...The Conclusion returns to the key question – how do Baudelaire, Verlaine and Mallarmé speak to the present? – and answers that their texts can be viewed as a practice in non-anthropocentric ontology. This answer is placed in relation to the well-known debates about depersonalisation in modern...