{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-valerys-prose-aubades-9781487598761","title":"The Rhetoric of Valérys Prose Aubades","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This study demonstrates the significance of Valéry as a prose poet and of the form and its evolution in the poet's oeuvre. The close textual reading and analysis concentrate on Valéry's prose aubades – the prose poems, poetic prose fragments, and sequences celebrating the emergence of the self and its world at dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theme of dawn pervades Valéry's poetry from the opening chord of Charmes to those Notebooks which he kept from almost half a century and which are the source of so much of his poetry. This book shows how the moment and theme of dawn have also inspired the greater part of Valéry's prose poems and poetic prose fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics have begun to show interest in the break-up of traditional genres and in the emerg\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409178009943,"sku":"9781487598761","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487598761.jpg?v=1730505779","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rhetoric-of-valerys-prose-aubades-9781487598761","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}