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BL
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585832
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b415051
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| Main Entry
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Monte, Steven,1967-
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| Title & Author
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Invisible fences : : prose poetry as a genre in French and American literature /\ Steven Monte.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, c2000.
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298 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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080323211X (cl : alk. paper)
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: 9780803232112 (cl : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-292) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Origins of the Prose Poem and Theories of Genre -- 2. A Wide Field of Prose Possibilities -- 3. Poetry in a Prosaic World -- 4. The Makings of a Genre -- 5. The Emergence of Prose Poetry in English -- 6. The Idea of an American Prose Poem, Take One -- 7. The Idea of an American Prose Poem, Take Two -- 8. Negative Dialectics.
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| Abstract
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"In Invisible Fences Steven Monte places prose poetry in historical and theoretical perspective by comparing its development in the French and American literary traditions. In spite of its apparent formal freedom, prose poetry is constrained by specific historical circumstances and is constantly engaged in border disputes with neighboring prose and poetic genres." "Monte illuminates these constraints through an examination of works that have influenced the development of the prose poem as well as through a discussion of genre theory and detailed readings of poems ranging from Charles Baudelaire's "La Solitude" to John Ashbery's "The System.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Prose poems, French-- History and criticism.
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French poetry-- History and criticism.
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Prose poems, American-- History and criticism.
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American poetry-- History and criticism.
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| LC Classification
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PQ491.M66 2000
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