Mallarme's "Divine Transportation": Real and Apparent Sources of Literary Value

Mallarme's reputation as a seminal thinker has steadily grown, yet his literary theory has received little attention and the great theoretical articles of his later years have never been properly studied. This book represents the first attempt to examine the later Mallarme's extraordinary and systematic literary idealism through a careful scrutiny of his work. Dayan makes selective use of the textual approaches of certain post-structuralist theorists, especially Derrida, pointing out the many similarities between their positions and Mallarme's, but also noting the vital differences. These differences, Dayan argues help to explain not only Mallarme's continuing elusiveness, but also the failure of modern literary theory to face the question that Mallarme always considered central: What is good poetry?Dayan, Peter is the author of 'Mallarme's "Divine Transportation": Real and Apparent Sources of Literary Value' with ISBN 9780198158417 and ISBN 0198158416.