Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play

Anna Davies

Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play

Anna J. Davies

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Max Jacob (1876-1944), French philosopher

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MHRA Texts and Dissertations 80

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

25 June 2010 • 258pp

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Max Jacob, central figure of early 20th-century Parisian bohemia along with Picasso and Apollinaire, was active at the emergence of Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. But in spite of his close connections with modernism - epitomized by his seminal book of prose poems Le Cornet à dés (1916) - Jacob remains a marginal figure. His Breton-Jewish ‘otherness’, conversion to Catholicism, and death under the Nazis in 1944 adds to the enigma and shifts the critical focus further still. But Jacob’s poetic playfulness - his many-faceted irony, wordplay, narrative heterogeneity, tragi-comedy, self-reflexivity and polyphony - may begin to offer insights into his esprit créateur, which, true to the (post)modernist vision, is not to be found in the usual ways. For the aim of Max Jacob, connoisseur of traditional storytelling as well as spearhead of the literary vanguard, is to jolt the unconscious, the energetic kernel of creativity.

Anna J. Davies is Tutor in French at Swansea University.

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i-iv	Front Matter Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.1	Cite
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v-vi	Table of Contents Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.2	Cite
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vii-vii	Acknowledgements Ajd doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.3	Cite
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viii-viii	List of Illustrations Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.4	Cite
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ix-x	Abbreviations Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.5	Cite
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1-15	Introduction Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.6	Cite
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17-40	Chapter 1 Max Jacob’s Poetics and the Playful Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.7	Cite
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42-73	Chapter 2 Wordplay in Le Cornet À Dés Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.8	Cite
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75-104	Chapter 3 Pastiche in Le Cornet À Dés Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.9	Cite
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106-146	Chapter 4 Ironic Stances in Le Roi De Béotie Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.10	Cite
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148-185	Chapter 5 the Polyphonic Play of Narrative: Nuits D’hôpital Et L’aurore Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.11	Cite
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187-231	Chapter 6 Le Terrain Bouchaballe Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.12	Cite
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233-241	Conclusion Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.13	Cite
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242-248	Bibliography Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.14	Cite
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249-260	INDEX Anna Davies doi:10.2307/j.ctt46n3gj.15	Cite
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