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( Wallace Fowlie here gives us his third book of memoirs—...)
Wallace Fowlie here gives us his third book of memoirs—the best yet. Sites is thematically focused on places that marked Fowlie's life and affected his way of looking at the world. This brilliantly written book exhibits great clarity and elegant simplicity, virtues that only an experienced—and good—writer can achieve. Although Sites has a strong unfolding narrative pattern that encourages you to read it from beginning to end, it can be browsed in to good purpose, for you can read any chapter out of sequence and still relish it.
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(This Book ( a parallel volume to Mr Fowlie's A Guide to C...)
This Book ( a parallel volume to Mr Fowlie's A Guide to Contemporary French Literature, Merician Books) begins with a description of the various kinds of theater in France, and continues with an analysis of the art of the great directors - Copeau, Jouvet, Dullin, Barrault, and Vilar, among others. The work of four major playwrights, Giraudoux, Cocteau, Montherlant, and Anouilh, is then examined, followed by discussions of the Catholic Writers Claudel, Bernanos, and Mauriac. The plays of Gide, Sartre, Camus, and Julien Green are studied in terms of the philosophies or ideas they embody. Considerable attention is paid to the experimental theater, beginning with an evaluation of the theories of Artaund and continuing with analyses of Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, and Schehade. Mr Fowlie concludes with three theoretical chapters, a selected bibliography, and an index.
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(From the front flap of this 119 page book: "A great deal ...)
From the front flap of this 119 page book: "A great deal has been written about Arthur Rimbaud and his work. The mystery of a man who produced great poetry before he was twenty, and then stopped writing and spent the rest of his life in strange exile, was bound to intrigue biographers. The heavy tomes recording the minutiae of his life have certainly not explained the man. Wallace Fowlie has not attempted to solve the myster by embarrassing the reader with detail. Instead he has worked backwards, taking Rimbaud's poetry as the key to his subsequent actions. The result of this method is the most serious and profound study of Rimbaud that has so far appeared in English. Apart from is account of Rimbaud himself, the book gives illuminating flashes about a variety of other writers: Gide, Valery, Sc eve, de Vigny, T.S. Eliot, Auden and many others. Of course, Fowlie is not writing for the uninformed, and he has given us a book to which reference will have to be made whenever Rimbaud is talked or written about. Its criticism and scholarship are a delight to the intellect, and his delicate, exploratory style lays open for examination new trends of thought, not only about Rimbaud but other great artists."
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( "The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long dera...)
"The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."—Rimbaud In 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature and a professor at Duke University. Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I don’t read French that easily. . . . I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me." Fourteen years later, when Fowlie first heard the music of the Doors, he recognized the influence of Rimbaud in Morrison’s lyrics. In Rimbaud and Jim Morrison Fowlie, a master of the form of the memoir, reconstructs the lives of the two youthful poets from a personal perspective. In their twinned stories he discovers an uncanny symmetry, a pattern far richer than the simple truth that both led lives full of adventure and both made poetry of their thirst for the liberation of the self. The result is an engaging account of the connections between an exceptional French symbolist who gave up writing poetry at the age of twenty, died young, and whose poems are still avidly read to this day, and an American rock musician whose brief career ignited an entire generation and has continued to fascinate millions around the world in the twenty years since his death in Paris. In this dual portrait, Fowlie gives us a glimpse of the affinities and resemblances between European literary traditions and American rock music and youth culture in the late twentieth century. A personal meditation on two unusual, yet emblematic, cultural figures, this book also stands as a summary of a noted scholar’s lifelong reflections on creative artists.
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(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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("The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derang...)
"The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."--RimbaudIn 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature and a professor at Duke University. Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I ...
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(One of the most respected interpreters of modern French l...)
One of the most respected interpreters of modern French literature here provides a comprehensive study reflecting the richness and excitement of twentieth-century French theater. This book (a parallel volume to Mr. Fowlie's "A Guide to Contemporary French Literature") addresses Traditions and Achievements in French Theater ~ Theaters, Directors, and Actors ~ Approaches to Tragedy ~ Religious Theater ~ Theater of Ideas ~ Experimental Theater. Eight pages of illustrations
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( Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie ha...)
Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie’s contributions include translations of Rimbaud (the complete works), Molieré, Claudel, Baudelaire, and Cocteau, and literary studies of, among others, Rimbaud, Stendhal, Gide, and Mallarmé. His widely acclaimed Journal of Rehearsals, originally published in 1977, is the first in his series of memoirs. In this passionate book, Fowlie explores his "love affair" with the literature and culture of France, and offers insights into his own intellectual and social life, his early love for the French language, and his encounters and relationships with an impressive cast of characters: Kenneth Burke, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, and others.
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Harvard University.
He was the James B. Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University from 1964. Known for his translations of the poet Arthur Rimbaud and his critical studies of French poetry and drama, he also wrote about rock-poet Jim Morrison. Perhaps his most enduring legacy, however, is the product of six decades of teaching at universities in the United States, including Yale, Bennington, Holy Cross, U. Colorado-Boulder, and Duke.
Devoted to teaching, particularly undergraduate courses in French, Italian, and modernist literature, Fowlie influenced several generations of American college students.
Fowlie received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1947. Fowlie corresponded with literary figures such as Henry Miller, René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse), Marianne Moore, and Anaïs Nin.
His translations of Rimbaud were appreciated by a younger generation that included Jim Morrison and Patti Smith. In 1990, Fowlie consulted with director Oliver Stone on the film The Doors.
(This Book ( a parallel volume to Mr Fowlie's A Guide to C...)
(One of the most respected interpreters of modern French l...)
( Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie ha...)
(From the front flap of this 119 page book: "A great deal ...)
( "The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long dera...)
("The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derang...)
( Wallace Fowlie here gives us his third book of memoirs—...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)