Divagations

Barbara Johnson taught in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and was the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is the author of The Critical Difference, A World of Difference, and The Wake of Deconstruction.

• Autobiography Preface Anecdotes or Poems The Phenomenon of the Future Autumn Lament Winter Shudder The Demon of Analogy Poor Pale Child The Pipe An Interrupted Performance Reminiscence The Fairground Declaration The White Waterlily A Man of the Cloth Glory Conflict Volumes on My Divan Long Ago, in the Margins of a Copy of Baudelaire Capsule Sketches and Full-Length Portraits Piece: A Brief Summary of Vathek Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Verlaine Arthur Rimbaud Laurent Tailhade Beckford Tennyson Viewed from Here Theodore de Banville Edgar Poe Whistler Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot Richard Wagner Richard Wagner: The Reverie of a French Poet Scribbled at the Theater Scribbled at the Theater Hamlet Ballets Another Study of Dance: The Fundamentals of Ballet "The Only One Would Have To Be as Fluid as the Sorcerer" Mimesis Of Genre and the Moderns Parenthesis Stages and Pages Solemnity Music and Letters Music and Letters Crisis of Verse Crisis of Verse About the Book Restricted Action Displays The Book as Spiritual Instrument The Mystery in Letters Services Sacred Pleasure Catholicism The Same Important Miscellaneous News Briefs Gold Accusation Cloisters Magic Bucolic Solitude Confrontation The Court Safeguard Mallarme's Bibliography Translator's Note

The translation is outstanding, and the collection (arranged according to the French writer's own plan) makes available in English a much fuller sample of Mallarmé's remarkable and influential prose writings than was previously available. This book makes a major contribution to modern literary studies and aesthetics.