Mis-reading the Creative Impulse: The Poetic Subject in Rimbaud and Claudel, Restaged
- ISBN-10
- 080932122X
- ISBN-13
- 9780809321223
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- SIU Press
- Author
- Adrianna M. Paliyenko
Description
Building on work by Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, and Harold Bloom, Adrianna M. Paliyenko s richly textured study revises our previous understanding of Arthur Rimbaud s (18541891) indirect artistic influence on Paul Claudel (18681955). Paliyenko s analysis answers to critical readings that rely on speculative spiritual affinities and text-surface similarities in identifying Claudel as Rimbaud s artistic follower. She traces the two writers development of the poetic subject, striving to map Claudel s "creative corrections," or revisions, of Rimbaud s work. In redirecting discussion of Rimbaud s work, she develops a Bloomian paradigm of how creative artists strive for originality by correcting or revising their predecessors."
