[PDF.03bb] One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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 | #976697 in Books |  R Howard Bloch |  2016-11-08 |  2016-11-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.60 x1.20 x6.70l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

 | One Toss of the Dice The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A good overview of Mallarmé’s life and his transformative poem|By Robert Burgin|Bloch, a French professor at Yale, writes about the life of French poet Stéphane Mallarmé and his 1897 transformative, "deeply optical" poem, “One Toss of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance,” which (according to Bloch) "made us modern." The books provides a goo| |“There is only one poet capable of capturing the infinite in such a small space, and, we can now add, only one critic capable of capturing the mind-altering qualities of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem, "One Toss of the Dice." That

In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.

It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backward and forward, even sideways, launched modernism. Stéphane Mallarmé’s "One Toss of the...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern   |  R. Howard Bloch.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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