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Article: Situating Mallarme. David Kinlock and Gordon Millan.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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eds. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp. 191. ISBN 5-906766-18-7
This collection of essays, representing papers read at a conference in Strathclyde in 1998, seeks to situate Mallarme with reference to arts other than poetry, to his preoccupation with death and to his artistic influence on posterity. The essays, however, explore diverse questions with only general thematic unity.
Heath Lees begins by tracing the pervasive influence of Wagner's music on Mallarme. He then examines in detail Mallarme's "La Penultieme est morte" for its relationship to the si of the musical scale. Mallarme's writings on Wagner reveal a concern for the competition ...