Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

One: The Object In Modernism In The United States And France

Two: Cubism And The Poetry Of The Object: Pierre Reverdy’s Aesthetics Of Impersonality

Three: The Text As Object: Francis Ponge’s Verbal Still Lifes

Four: Description As Transfiguration: Jean Follain’s (Meta)Poetics Of The Object

Five: The Object As (M)other: Guillevic’s Poetry And Object-Relations Theory

Six: Jean Tortel’s Poetics Of The Desiring Gaze

Seven: L’objet apres l’objet: Contemporary French Poetry

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

John C. Stout is an associate professor in the Department of French at McMaster University.

Reviews

"The focus of Stout’s analysis of modern poetry and the object is on the lyrical dimensions to the various types of elucubration written on both sides of the Atlantic, and with good English translations from the French in parallel, Objects Observed examines how poets envision the object, not least the human (and specifically male) body."
*H-France Review*