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• W102577892 abstract "Les Noces d'Herodiade: Mystere is Mallarme's aggressively plurivocal account of an erotic triangle of characters--Herodiade, her Nurse, and the head of John the Baptist--who by turns encourage, question, and resist the movement of Herodiade from narcissism to noces uniques with the head of the Baptist.(1) The series of poems initiates a practice of radical associationism both in Mallarme's work and in a significant strand of modernism in general: a tendency to pursue connectedness, but to pursue it to such an extreme that, in varying degrees, it disperses itself. That is, the deep uncertainty of meaning in Les Noces d'Herodiade is a function not of too little relationship among textual elements--typically the claim of a later, frankly disjunctive modernism--but of too much relationship. Indeterminacy in Herodiade is the product of a relational aesthetics in a state of excess. To speak of Mallarme's poetics in these terms is to suggest that all levels of Les Noces d'Herodiade--including, but not limited to, accounts of the lyric subject, metaphor, syntax, and closure--might profitably be read from such a point of view. And indeed, this is the case. In the following pages, I limit my investigation to the first of these issues: the crisis of the speaking subject. What I wish to focus on is the impossibility of determining with any certainty who is speaking at key moments in the text. If, as Jonathan Culler argues, one of the traditional tasks in the interpretation of lyric poetry has been to identify in detail a single narrator's attitudes, tone of voice, and situation, then that task is problematic here., The difficulty is not that it is somehow wrong or misguided to try to actualize a speaking subject in Herodiade. To the contrary, much in the text encourages us to do precisely this, as we shall see. Rather, our quandary is that, having been invited to seek such a source, we are effectively blocked from finding it by an excess of voices and perspectives, none of which is totally coherent or unified. Loss of selfhood in Herodiade--a loss unredeemed by any final integration of self--is characterized not by elimination of voice but by its multiplication. Despite its centrality to Mallarme's writings, Les Noces d'Herodiade is infrequently read. For this reason, I introduce my reading with a short compositional history of Mallarme's text, a brief evaluation of a book-length exegesis provided by Gardner Davies, and a summary statement of each of the Herodiade poems. From his correspondence, we are able to determine that Mallarme began writing Herodiade in the fall of 1864. From early on, he envisaged the piece as a tragedy, destined for the theater. With the rejection of his Faune by the Theatre-Francais (October, 1865), however, he recasts his conception of Herodiade, from drama to lyric: Les vers de mon Faune ont plu infiniment, mais de Banville et Coquelin n'y ont pas rencontre l'anecdote necessaire que demande le public, et m'ont affirme que cela n'interesserait que les poetes. J'abandonne mon sujet pendant quelques mods dans un tiroir, pour le refaire librement plus tard et . . . je commence Herodiade, non plus tragedie, mais poeme (pour les memes raisons) et surtout parce que, je gagne ainsi l'attitude, les vetements, le decor, et l'ameublement, sans parler du mystere.(3) In making this shift, Mallarme does not so much abandon the dramatic elements of Herodiade as redirect them. In a thoroughly typical gesture, he seeks to turn disadvantage to advantage, reversing the valence on his experience from negative to positive (non plus tragedie, mais . . . je gagne ainsi; cf. the compensatory theatrical gesture which opens this letter of disappointment [C 173-74]). Curiously, it is shortly after this rejection and reconceptualization of his work that Mallarme finally begins to make progress on Herodiade. …" @default.
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• W102577892 title "Loss of Self and Coming to Voice in 'Les Noces d'Herodiade.'(poems of Stephane Mallarme)" @default.
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