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Mallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience Hardcover - 1999
by Smith, Richard Candida
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- Title Mallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience
- Author Smith, Richard Candida
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition Used - G+
- Pages 328
- Language ENG
- Publisher U. Of California, Berkeley
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 244189
- ISBN 9780520218284
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
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The arts as a precious interior world, marked by a home whose brocaded wall coverings muffle the intrusions of an ever noisier, machine-driven, vulgar society; an enclave of beauty where a delicate, pale aristocrat nur the finer sensibilities through immersion in the higher realities found in exquisitely crafted books, art, and music; the more ornate the better, for every golden filigree and each glittering gem stops the mind's inner noise and provides a structure for contemplating the mysteries of cre
From the rear cover
"A critically important contribution to the debate of the last ten years over the nature and status of experience. . . Cndida Smith's range of knowledge is extraordinarily broad."--Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
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Citations
- Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 540